The Americas
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The Americas
Hardback. An anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. It helps us to see how gender roles and social class are reproduced in a culture experiencing profound upheaval. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFSF; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293574
- ISBN
- 9780312293574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Paperback. This work explores the similarities and differences in gender-related policy making and outcomes in Japan and the United States, focusing on the role of women's movements and other factors in determining policy. Policies examined are equal employment, domestic violence, and reproductive rights. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293567
- ISBN
- 9780312293567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.90
€ 55.90
Hardback. This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Gerber, David A.; Kraut, Alan M. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293499
- ISBN
- 9780312293499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.35
€ 129.35
Hardcover. Rusty Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas and reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293291
- ISBN
- 9780312293291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.83
€ 67.83
Hardcover. With its mixture of American evangelicalism, popular psychology and show business, Moral Re-Armament attracted men and women on six continents. This book traces Moral Re-Armament's reinventions over fifty years, from its Ivy League beginnings to its spiritual heirs, Up With People and Alcoholics Anonymous. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCS1; HRCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293277
- ISBN
- 9780312293277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Discussing social complexities, including ethnic cleansing, culture wars, hegemony, human sufferings, and intensified xenophobia, the authors explain why it is essential that we gain a nuanced understanding of how ideology underlies all social, cultural, and political discourse and actions. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JNA; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293260
- ISBN
- 9780312293260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Hardback. This text situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism, and makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293222
- ISBN
- 9780312293222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. This title posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the 20th century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293031
- ISBN
- 9780312293031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293000
- ISBN
- 9780312293000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Paperback. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these 19 essays, of Ilan Stavans, cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSB; GTB; JFCX; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240318
- ISBN
- 9780312240318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.07
€ 33.99
€ 28.07
Hardback. This work examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 1KBB; HBJH; HBLW3; JFSL; JPA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239725
- ISBN
- 9780312239725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This study of Hollywood's golden era examines the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other sources, the author reveals how the activism of film fans transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; GTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239626
- ISBN
- 9780312239626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. During the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered "yes" and were killed. This volume investigates what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJPR; HRCM; JFFE; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239572
- ISBN
- 9780312239572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239480
- ISBN
- 9780312239480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Staudt, Kathleen, Coronado, Irasema
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239398
- ISBN
- 9780312239398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. This text charts the changes in Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking at a range of fictions by women from various ethnocultural backgrounds, it examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239008
- ISBN
- 9780312239008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the two hundred year drive by the United States to first, become a global power and, second, create an international security and economic system capable of protecting and promoting its strategic and economic interests. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238926
- ISBN
- 9780312238926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. Despite its associations with homesickness, the longing associated with nostalgia may also function as a vehicle for imaginatively "fixing" the past in two senses: securing and mending or repairing. This study explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, loss and recovery. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238759
- ISBN
- 9780312238759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Through readings of individual poems (and drawing upon the gender and genre theories of Jean Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Melanie Klien, and Jacques Lacan), Estrin counters presuppositions that the lyric remains sequestered in a political isolation, and offers a new critique of American poetry. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238650
- ISBN
- 9780312238650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238407
- ISBN
- 9780312238407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92