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Hardcover. Uncovering the natural wonders of Virginia, Curtis J. Badger hikes, bikes, canoes and kayaks his way through some of the Commonwealth's best-known and least-known areas. He fishes in the James River, confronts bears on Stony Man Mountain and watches birds in the Blue Ridge. Illustrator(s): Gavrilovic, Vladimir. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; WSZ; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921624
ISBN
9780813921624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Tells the tale of seven Virginians who strongly supported the Confederacy from beginning to end. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 264 pages, photographs, maps, bibliographic essay, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842050555
ISBN
9780842050555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.26

Hardcover. Tells the tale of seven Virginians who strongly supported the Confederacy from beginning to end. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 264 pages, photographs, maps, bibliographic essay, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842050548
ISBN
9780842050548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.86

hardcover. Looks at the geographical patterns of Baptist expansion, the techniques dissenters used to gain adherents, the distinctiveness of Baptist worship, and its cultural resonances in Virginia. This book traces how the American Revolution created a new context favorable to Baptists. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; HBJK; HRCC2; HRCC92. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926797
ISBN
9780813926797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Paperback. Traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography oout there.o Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 photographs, 5 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803232785
ISBN
9780803232785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Paperback. That there is a 'digital divide' - which falls between those who have and can afford the latest in technological tools and those who have neither in our society - is indisputable. This title redefines the issue as it explores the cascades of that divide, which involve access, skill, political participation, as well as the obvious economics. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 figure, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; UBJ; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878409990
ISBN
9780878409990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816667550
ISBN
9780816667550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. Jane Iwamura examines contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. At the heart of her study is the Oriental Monk, a non-sexual, solitary, conventionalized icon who generously and purposefully shares his wisdom with the West. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; HR; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199738618
ISBN
9780199738618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.58

Hardcover. Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137468314
ISBN
9781137468314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.97

Hardback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804747554
ISBN
9780804747554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.94

paperback. This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSJ1; JHM; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804747561
ISBN
9780804747561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.37

Paperback. Editor(s): Thormond, Jerrod F. Num Pages: 86 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
86
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604565157
ISBN
9781604565157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.44
€ 43.33

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Continuum New York
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KNH0011274
ISBN
9780826415233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816633487
ISBN
9780816633487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.08

Paperback. Visionary Film has been the dominant study of the American avant-garde cinema for twenty-five years. Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000. Num Pages: 480 pages, 77 halftones & 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195148862
ISBN
9780195148862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.40

hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, 69. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; ACVT; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 5. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801444708
ISBN
9780801444708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.12

Hardback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121705
ISBN
9780231121705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.74
€ 79.12

Paperback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231121712
ISBN
9780231121712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardcover. Num Pages: 254 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJWWL; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 305 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1402. 254 pages, photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KJWWL; AJC; WTM. Dimension: 221 x 305 x 22. Weight: 1406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Phoenix Carib Limited
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955617614
ISBN
9780955617614
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.88

paperback. Offers an analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced "modernity" during the lengthy "Order and Progress" dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. This book describes how Oaxacans, both elites and commoners, crafted and manipulated practices of tradition and modernity to define themselves and their city as integral parts of a modern Mexico. Num Pages: 248 pages, 30 b&w photos, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337904
ISBN
9780822337904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardback. Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. "Visions of the Maid" examines three pivotal films on the heroine as well as a broad array of popular culture references. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 34 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; APFA; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920757
ISBN
9780813920757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.91

Hardback. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801879296
ISBN
9780801879296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.97
€ 47.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, map,ports. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404. 320 pages, map,ports. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WTL. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 21. Weight: 400.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907871873
ISBN
9780907871873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 200 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AGP; AJC; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 290 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764351488
ISBN
9780764351488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.32

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