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The Americas
paperback. The Lifeway of Kathryn Jones Harrison. 288 pages, 50 illustrations. A biography of Oregon tribal leader Kathryn Jones Harrison. It recounts the Grand Rondes' resurgence from the ashes of federal policies designed to terminate their very existence. It models the survival skills of adaptability, endurance, patience, and grit coupled with the courage to stand up to confront crusading power. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; BG; GTB; JFSL9. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985824
- ISBN
- 9780295985824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.49
€ 37.49
paperback. The Shape of Elegance. 80 pages, 52 illustrations, 40 in colour. Inada Artist Frank Okada played a significant role in the modern art history of the Pacific Northwest. Born a Nisei in 1931, he was raised in Seattle's International District and throughout his life retained its influences and his vivid memories in his art. This title notes that Okada created a texture that brought light to a field of colour. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1K; ACXJ; GTB. Dimension: 228 x 254 x 6. Weight: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985664
- ISBN
- 9780295985664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.78
€ 37.78
paperback. Traces the history of African Americans in California Editor(s): De Graaf, Lawrence Brooks; Mulroy, Kevin; Taylor, Quintard, Jr. Series: Series No Longer Used. Num Pages: 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GTB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press Seattle
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295980836
- ISBN
- 9780295980836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.19
€ 61.19
paperback. Who owns the land? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against another, or when there is a conflict between economic and environmental values? This book features essays that deal with the complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land. Editor(s): Robbins, William G.; Foster, James C. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295980201
- ISBN
- 9780295980201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.31
€ 37.31
paperback. Details the first major clash between conservationists and developers after World War II, the successful fight to prevent the building of Echo Park Dam. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press Seattle
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295979328
- ISBN
- 9780295979328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.61
€ 38.61
paperback. Features an account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier. This is the history of organized mountaineering in the Northwest as well as of Mt. Rainier and those who accepted its challenge. It carries those stories when Mt. Rainier achieved the status of a national park. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 278 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press Washington
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295978475
- ISBN
- 9780295978475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
paperback. Based on analysis of a generation of leaders who came to power in Chile after 1970, this text focuses on how Allende's followers justify their political objectives through the course of their victory, violent defeat and gradual return to politics during Chile's redemocratization process. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFF; JPHL; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110174
- ISBN
- 9780231110174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.63
€ 48.63
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341982
- ISBN
- 9780230341982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.61
€ 21.99
€ 19.61
paperback. Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment, crime and corruption. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099553885
- ISBN
- 9780099553885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.01
€ 19.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. The American Empire is in crisis - and its death throes threaten to engulf us all Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845290580
- ISBN
- 9781845290580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.71
€ 15.71
Paperback. Haiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It makes it clear that, for many Chinese American families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813535975
- ISBN
- 9780813535975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.41
€ 44.99
€ 39.41
Paperback. Twelve Years a Slave, soon to be a huge new Hollywood film, is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843914716
- ISBN
- 9781843914716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.66
€ 18.99
€ 17.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620871041
- ISBN
- 9781620871041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.20
€ 14.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Editor(s): Pametto, Jennifer; Jenkins, Erwin. Num Pages: 117 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 8. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 117
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614701200
- ISBN
- 9781614701200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.91€ 48.83
€ 68.91
€ 48.83
cards. This book includes 20 postcards featuring Robert Cameron's best aerial photographs of San Francisco. Cameron captures the City by the Bay's most recognizable characteristics and landmarks from above, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the romantic fog and more. Num Pages: 20 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AGN; AJC; AJRK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 178 x 11. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cameron Books United States
- Number of pages
- 20
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937359010
- ISBN
- 9781937359010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.85
€ 10.99
€ 10.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRLK; JPS; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Jewish Lights Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893361812
- ISBN
- 9781893361812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.14
€ 17.14
Paperback. Blowback' : The baleful consequences of American global policies, described by a supremely well-informed American international commentator. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751530803
- ISBN
- 9780751530803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.01
€ 17.01
paperback. Num Pages: 926 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 51. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Vintage United States
- Number of pages
- 926
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780679731979
- ISBN
- 9780679731979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.88
€ 32.99
€ 27.88
Paperback. Editor(s): Clark, Brenda; Kilburn, Nicole; Russell, Nick. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Canada
- Edition
- Ill
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550174199
- ISBN
- 9781550174199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.72
€ 26.99
€ 22.72
Paperback. The classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBW; JFSL9; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393329391
- ISBN
- 9780393329391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.77
€ 18.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. This book answers the growing need for a textbook that deals with Asian American health from a public health perspective. Examines and explains the many preventable conditions (heart disease, diabetes, and cancer among them) and how working with the cultures of the various groups can improve their health and well-being. Editor(s): Trinh-Shevrin, Chau; Islam, Nadia Shilpi; Rey, Mariano Jose. Series: Public Health/Vulnerable Populations. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 180 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787998295
- ISBN
- 9780787998295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.16
€ 130.16
Paperback. A resource for understanding the complexities of ocean and coastal law and policy. It covers the full array of issues involved - from maritime jurisdiction and boundaries to water quality protection to fisheries management and marine mammal protection to offshore energy development and climate change. Each chapter addresses the state of the law. Editor(s): Baur, Donald C; Eichenberg, Tim; Snusz, Georgia Hancock; Sutton, Professor Emeritus Michael. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LBBK; LND; LNKJ; LNKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 179 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- American Bar Association United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781627227438
- ISBN
- 9781627227438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 167.68
€ 167.68
Paperback. "I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer," Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened his Overland Campaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Series: Emerging Civil War Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 171 illustrations and 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Savas Beatie United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611211481
- ISBN
- 9781611211481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.17
€ 17.99
€ 17.17
Paperback. Norman Feder helped shape the study of American Indian art. In this volume, a group of American, Canadian and European anthropologists, art historians and collectors explore topics relating to Feder's interests in Native American art, aiming to shed light on his background and achievements. Editor(s): Feest, Christian F. Series: ERNAS monographs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 146 illus., 84 in color, 39 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KB; ACBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 208 x 20. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783000058714
- ISBN
- 9783000058714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.60
€ 46.60