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The Americas

Hardcover. Addresses various aspects of taxation, including tax policy issues at the federal, state, local, and international levels. Editor(s): Luttman, Suzanne M. Series: Advances in Taxation. Num Pages: 182 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781846639128
ISBN
9781846639128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.85

Hardcover. The vision of the South American rainforest in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity. Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781846311956
ISBN
9781846311956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.17

Hardcover. Focuses on Language poetry, reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding the movement. This title discusses poets such as: Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 213 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846311154
ISBN
9781846311154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.51

Hardback. Intends to identify both successes and challenges faced by Black female students accessing and matriculating through institutions of higher education. This volume is aimed toward garnering an understanding of the educational trajectories and experiences of Black females, independent of and in comparison to their peers. Editor(s): Chambers, Crystal Renee; Sharpe, Rhonda V. Series Editor(s): Frierson, Henry T. Series: Diversity in Higher Education. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JNKS; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781780525020
ISBN
9781780525020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.68

paperback. Through the lens of children's literature, explores the largely untold story of secular Yiddish schools in America Num Pages: 296 pages, 32 illus. (11 colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSP1; JFSR1; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brandeis University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781611689877
ISBN
9781611689877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.35

Hardback. The chaos, complicity, and deadly consequences of the Boston Marathon bombing Num Pages: 320 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781611688498
ISBN
9781611688498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. A nonpartisan clarion call for civic renewal to restore American democracy Num Pages: 308 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611687958
ISBN
9781611687958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.23

Hardback. A valuable reference guide to Ohio in the Civil War Editor(s): Miller, Richard F. Num Pages: 932 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; 3JH; GBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 179 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1179.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
932
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611686883
ISBN
9781611686883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.03
€ 92.30

Paperback. A unique and original reading of the American imaginary Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611680003
ISBN
9781611680003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 144 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; AJC; HBJK; HBLW; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592139989
ISBN
9781592139989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. It used to be that raves were grassroots organized, anti-establishment, unlicensed all-night drug-fueled dance parties held in abandoned warehouses or an open field. This book explores the dance music, drug use and social deviance that are part of the pulsing dynamics of this collective. Num Pages: 242 pages, 7 Tables, 19 Halftones, 2 Figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; AVGV; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592139330
ISBN
9781592139330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.21

Paperback. During the Second World War, Chinese Americans contributed to the war effort by joining the armed forces and working in the defense industries. This title traces the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated outfit of Chinese Americans sent to China in support of the American Army Air Corps and the Chinese Air Force. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138401
ISBN
9781592138401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. A pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democracies Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 1KLCN; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592138296
ISBN
9781592138296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 35.23

Paperback. Assesses the GSOC strike, using a variety of publications dealing with the teaching assistants. This book offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for higher education. Editor(s): Krause, Monika; Nolan, Mary; Palm, Michael; Ross, Andrew. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 tables, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JNMN; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592137411
ISBN
9781592137411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. In Savoring the Salt, a host of poets, scholars, writers, political activists and filmmakers recall Toni Cade Bambara, a woman whose voice and vision played a vital role in shaping African American culture in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Holmes, Linda Janet; Wall, Cheryl A. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136254
ISBN
9781592136254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.03

Paperback. In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJPN; BM; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136162
ISBN
9781592136162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.42

Paperback. This is a reexamination of John Dewey's idea of schools, specifically community schools, as the best places to grow a democratic society that is based on racial, social, and economic justice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JNA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135929
ISBN
9781592135929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardcover. Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, this title focuses on Chinese labourers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba. This title presents an examination of writings by Chinese coolies that raises theoretical and methodological questions regarding freedom, race, diaspora, trans-nationalism, and globalization. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 tables, 2 illustrations, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592135813
ISBN
9781592135813
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback. Explores a complex issue - integration of Blacks into White America - from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. This book explains how racial troubles in the US are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135738
ISBN
9781592135738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.03

Hardcover. Explores a complex issue - integration of Blacks into White America - from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. This book explains how racial troubles in the US are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135721
ISBN
9781592135721
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.82

Paperback. Explores how US citizens participate in local government. This book focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It fills a void in our understanding of the actual participatory practices of "civically engaged" citizens. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 Tables, 1 Figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135707
ISBN
9781592135707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Offering a different approach to the study of ethnicity in the neoliberal market, this work focuses on the Arabs in Brazil. It examines how Brazilians of Syrian-Lebanese descent have gained greater visibility and prominence as the country has embraced its globalizing economy, particularly its relations with Arab Gulf nations. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592135400
ISBN
9781592135400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.17

paperback. Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. This work shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. It also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to US culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Revised, Expanded ed.
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134946
ISBN
9781592134946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. At St John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, over a thousand people line up for food five days a week. This title takes the reader through the years before and after welfare reform to show how poverty has become "ordinary," a fact of life to millions of Americans and to the thousands of social workers. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592134588
ISBN
9781592134588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

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