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Hardback. Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSL3; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2010th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230203662
ISBN
9780230203662
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.26

Hardcover. An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, his passion for butterflies and his lost homeland. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; 3JJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151886
ISBN
9781857151886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.78

Paperback. Includes a chapter that looks at the evolving responses to the acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Num Pages: 408 pages, 151 b&w photos, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705258
ISBN
9780292705258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. This title includes discussions of poverty in the context of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements and chapters on the Great Recession and global poverty. Num Pages: 226 pages, 25 line illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Third
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276369
ISBN
9780520276369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.55

Paperback. This is a commemorative edition for C. Vann Woodward, who died in December 1999, of his classic work on the history of segregation and American race relations. Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and former Woodward student, William McFeely contributes a special afterword to discuss how Strange Career achieved its own significance as part of history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBTB; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Commemorative
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195146905
ISBN
9780195146905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, this book follows Tituba from her likely origins in South America to Barbados, forcefully dispelling the commonly-held belief that Tituba was African. Series: American Social Experience. Num Pages: 270 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HRQX5; HRQX9; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814713075
ISBN
9780814713075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTW; JPS; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816648436
ISBN
9780816648436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Explores the dealings and manoeuvring on both sides of the case, and how a combination of the prosecution's over-confidence, the defence's shrewdness, and the Los Angeles Police Department's incendiary history with the city's African-American community, gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt. This is an account of the O J Simpson trial. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; LNFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 37. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784755867
ISBN
9781784755867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time."-Journal of Military History Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421452
ISBN
9781421421452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.26

Paperback. A guide to Los Angeles that offers an assortment of alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. It shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape. Num Pages: 328 pages, 91 color illustrations, 67 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 540. 328 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. A guide to Los Angeles that offers an assortment of alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. It shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WTM. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight: 540.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270817
ISBN
9780520270817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.28

Paperback. Go off the beaten path to discover the hidden places, stories, and neighbourhoods that reveal Queens' true character, history, and flavour. Series: 111 Places/Shops. Num Pages: 240 pages, 111 colour. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135. .
Publisher
Emons Verlag GmbH
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9783740800208
ISBN
9783740800208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.13

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 315 x 290 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764351112
ISBN
9780764351112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.21

Paperback. Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America. Num Pages: 368 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLS; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099493563
ISBN
9780099493563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Offers a collection of seventeen connected structures that center on several towers, one of which a 99-foot high, all made from concrete-encassed iron adorned in found glass, ceramic, and shells, the Towers were made by the hands of Sabato (Sam) Rodia an Italian immigrant who built his dream world over thirty three years. Editor(s): Del Giudice, Luisa. Series: Critical Studies in Italian America (FUP). Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMG; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 860.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823257973
ISBN
9780823257973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RND; RNF; TQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226326115
ISBN
9780226326115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.73

Hardback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; ASDC; ASDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Walker Art Centre,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
y First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935963141
ISBN
9781935963141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 x 8 page colour plate. BIC Classification: BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408843307
ISBN
9781408843307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.37

Paperback. Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356363
ISBN
9780822356363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Focuses on one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley that supplies New York restaurants and farmers markets. This title explores the historical roots of farmworkers' predicaments and examines the ethnic shift from Black to Latino workers. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
229
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276697
ISBN
9780520276697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894898157
ISBN
9781894898157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.83

Flexibound. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBF; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 816.
Publisher
Oxmoor House
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780848747770
ISBN
9780848747770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148757
ISBN
9780231148757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474409575
ISBN
9781474409575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

Hardback. A pocket hardback edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 100 x 19. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509827961
ISBN
9781509827961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.70

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