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Paperback. A long-anticipated revised edition of one of the most respected and popular guides to the Gettysburg National Military Park. Editor(s): Luvaas, Jay; Nelson, Harold W.; Fullenkamp, Leonard J. Series: US Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev Exp
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618545
- ISBN
- 9780700618545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.74
€ 42.74
Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the...
Derek S. Hoff John A. Fliter
Paperback. The first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision that validated efforts by states to offer legislative relief to Depression-era citizens struggling to keep their farms and homes. The close 5-4 decision remains a touchstone for debates over the constitutionality (and benefits) of state intervention to the economy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618729
- ISBN
- 9780700618729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.60
€ 35.60
Hardcover. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the Pacific Northwest's first century of electification. Reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; THR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618736
- ISBN
- 9780700618736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.66
€ 76.66
Hardcover. The fifth and final volume in the author's sweeping study of the political economy of American warfare. Describes the bipolar world that developed from the rivalry between the U.S. and USSR and shows how seventy years of defense spending have bred a monster that has sunk its claws into the very fabric of American life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618743
- ISBN
- 9780700618743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.47
€ 74.47
Paperback. A detailed treatment of military space reconnaissance used in American strategic defense. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618804
- ISBN
- 9780700618804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.09
€ 44.09
Hardcover. A fascinating portrait of the U.S. Army on the early American frontier. Shows how the officer corps played a crucial role in stabilizing the frontiers of a rapidly expanding nation. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBW; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618842
- ISBN
- 9780700618842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
Hardcover. A fast-paced and compulsively readable account of the author's experiences as a Marine Corps officer who led "Rough Rider" truck convoys to and through hot zones in the Vietnam War. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618989
- ISBN
- 9780700618989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.16
€ 56.16
Hardcover. Examines the largely unsung leadership of U.S. Army battalion commanders in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations of World War II and concludes that they were hugely instrumental in overcoming their German Adversaries to emerge victorious, first in North Africa (Operation TORCH) and then in Sicily (Operation HUSKY). Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- HAR/MAP
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700618996
- ISBN
- 9780700618996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Hardcover. An authoritative history of the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century--and an expose of CIA activities there, peeling back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA's covert assistance to anticommunist forces in Cambodia during that span. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 33. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619009
- ISBN
- 9780700619009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.53
€ 68.53
Hardcover. The first full-scale, balanced account of President Truman's civil rights policies, tracing how the Missourian outgrew the bigotry of his Jackson County upbringing to become the president who integrated the military and lobbied for key civil rights legislation. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619115
- ISBN
- 9780700619115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.71
€ 68.71
Paperback. First paperback edition of the celebrated insider study of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. The Washington Post called this "Perhaps the best judicial biography ever written." Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619122
- ISBN
- 9780700619122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.09
€ 52.09
Hardcover. The first cultural history of greyhound racing in America, this book charts the sport's meteoric rise and equally meteoric decline against the backdrop of changes in American culture during the twentieth century." Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; WSNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619139
- ISBN
- 9780700619139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.36
€ 56.36
Hardcover. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 688 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619153
- ISBN
- 9780700619153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.15
€ 84.15
Hardcover. A study of Congress at the crossroads between the New Deal and the postwar era, showing that the wartime political dynamic established the dominant patterns for national politics through the remainder of the century. Reveals that moderates, not conservatives, determined the outcomes in key policy debates and examines how compromises were reached. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBWQ; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619177
- ISBN
- 9780700619177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.91
€ 74.91
Hardcover. This first detailed account of the Denver Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880 tells the complex story of how anti-Chinese nativism in the nineteenth century grew from a regional political issue to a full-fledged national concern. Provides a new way of understanding late nineteenth-century race relations, as well as American sectionalism. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBBWC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619191
- ISBN
- 9780700619191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.99
€ 74.99
Paperback. Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; JFSL3; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619269
- ISBN
- 9780700619269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.75
€ 35.75
Paperback. Third edition of a bestselling work by one of America's top Constitutional scholars. This update includes discussion of presidential actions during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama and challenges what the author views as their dangerous expansion of executive power. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Edition
- 3 Revised
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619313
- ISBN
- 9780700619313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.47
€ 43.47
Hardcover. Compelling essays on Alaskan bears by a writer whose work "Publishers Weekly" calls "captivating, lyrical, and bewitching." In this beautifully written natural history, she describes black, brown, and polar bears and their behavior across a wide range of interactions with each other, their environment, and especially human society. Num Pages: 440 pages, , black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; HBJK; RNK; WNCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619351
- ISBN
- 9780700619351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89
Paperback. A clear-headed, deeply researched, and convincing critique of the Warren Commission's investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy and its deliberate attempt to deceive the public with its "lone gunman" finding. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619399
- ISBN
- 9780700619399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.63
€ 31.99
€ 29.63
Hardcover. In a thoroughly engaging style John Miller introduces us to the small-town Midwestern boys who dreamed the America we know today and who made it real; from Frederick Jackson Turner and George Washington Carver to Henry Ford and Sam Walton. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 43. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619498
- ISBN
- 9780700619498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.62
€ 58.62
Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign (U.S. Army War College Guide...
Bowery, Charles R. Jr., Rafuse, Ethan S.
Paperback. The most thorough and accurate guide book available for one of the most complex and prolonged campaigns of the Civil War by two experts in military history and Civil War battlefield sites. Series: U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 36. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition (US) First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619603
- ISBN
- 9780700619603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.62
€ 44.62
Paperback. The career of controversial San Francisco publisher James Mason Hutchings, the tireless promoter whose efforts were essential to establishing Yosemite's place in the American imagination and to its preservation. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BGT; HBJK; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619672
- ISBN
- 9780700619672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.91
€ 39.91
Paperback. A deeply informed yet concise and sprightly narrative traces the stories of the people, events, and developments that have shaped the Old Dominion State and also the USA. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700619948
- ISBN
- 9780700619948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.41
€ 47.41
Hardcover. A meditation on the chronic conundrums and contradictions in American political culture and its development over the course of four centuries. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPH; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1 st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700620104
- ISBN
- 9780700620104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76