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The Americas

Paperback. Carrying the history of containment through the end of the Cold War, this book begins with Franklin D Roosevelt's postwar plans. It provides an analysis of George F Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," and provides an assessment of how Reagan and Gorbechev completed the process of containment. Num Pages: 512 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
502
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195174472
ISBN
9780195174472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.63

Paperback. Gerber reflects on whether American colleges and universities will be able to retain their position of global preeminence in an increasingly market-driven environment, given that the system of governance that helped make their success possible has been fundamentally altered. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JNMN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414638
ISBN
9781421414638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.18

Paperback. A travel classic, revised after twenty years: a journalist's lyrical account of life in Castro's Cuba. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KJC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465005031
ISBN
9780465005031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 225 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
New, Revised, Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493025794
ISBN
9781493025794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.52

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 35 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JNMN; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231166881
ISBN
9780231166881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.68

Hardback. Gives legal advice, including an opinion on whether perjury can be committed before a grand jury. This title attempts to bring Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy into print, offers biographical information for Delaplaine's Repository, and recommends revisions to a forthcoming biography of Patrick Henry. Editor(s): Looney, J. Jefferson. Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series. Num Pages: 800 pages, 9 duotones. 18 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1257.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
808
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160474
ISBN
9780691160474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.75
€ 125.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, 217 colour & 163 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764343179
ISBN
9780764343179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; VXQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764347771
ISBN
9780764347771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.18

Paperback. From acclaimed thinker and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich: how capitalism can be fixed. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCG; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781766
ISBN
9781785781766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 114 x 139 x 2. Weight in Grams: 24.
Publisher
American Traveler Press United States
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780935810783
ISBN
9780935810783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.31

Hardcover. A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393066951
ISBN
9780393066951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.58

Paperback. Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Editor(s): Dussart, Francoise; Poirier, Sylvie. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; JHMC; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521592
ISBN
9781487521592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.92

Hardback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YNM; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 202 x 261 x 14. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781426326974
ISBN
9781426326974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.57

Paperback. Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet in the depths of winter, but the savagery and danger of these encounters comes at huge personal cost. Num Pages: 272 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DFHA; 1KLS; BGA; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Vertebrate Graphics Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906148461
ISBN
9781906148461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Presents historical data and analytics to support the claim that monetary policy - steady control of the money supply - matters profoundly in the management of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Publications. Num Pages: 888 pages, 61ch.3fldg.M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 230 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1206.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
888
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
10.2.1971
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691003542
ISBN
9780691003542
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 55.08

Paperback. Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history. Editor(s): Faulkner, Carol; Parker, Alison M. Series: Gender and Race in American History. Num Pages: 300 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465076
ISBN
9781580465076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory. Num Pages: 506 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; 1DV; 1KLS; JPA; JPHC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801851582
ISBN
9780801851582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.88

Paperback. Series: Border Hispanisms. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 265 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477307298
ISBN
9781477307298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Paperback. This work makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. It looks at the factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, and illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way in which a witness is questioned. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 tables, 18 line illustrations, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JMRM; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
With a New Pref
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674287778
ISBN
9780674287778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.92

Paperback. Lesley Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, showing how the incursion of neoliberalism, the drug trade, and counterinsurgency military campaigns into civil society that began in the 1980s has destabilized everyday life and decimated the city's powerful social institutions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360605
ISBN
9780822360605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Wishart, David J. Num Pages: 254 pages, 146 entries, 71 photographs, 3 maps, selected bibliography after each entry, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
254
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298620
ISBN
9780803298620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
149
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865974098
ISBN
9780865974098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. * Ingrid Betancourt's astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist organisation FARC Num Pages: 608 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844086139
ISBN
9781844086139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139689
ISBN
9781571139689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.78

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