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Paperback. Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years work. The late Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most sophisticated. Num Pages: 152 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811209175
ISBN
9780811209175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.07

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 188 x 18. Weight in Grams: 848.
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810860407
ISBN
9780810860407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 39 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764331206
ISBN
9780764331206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.13

Hardback. Provides a comprehensive overview of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. This volume focuses on Middle America. Editor(s): Peregrine, Peter N.; Ember, Melvin. Num Pages: 462 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 3B; HBG; HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1460.
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306462597
ISBN
9780306462597
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, Black and white photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812993547
ISBN
9780812993547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.90

Paperback. Through a discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, this title investigates what the author terms 'the paradox of negative emotion' and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. It describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420. American Film and the Spectator's Experience. 296 pages, illustrations. Through a discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, this title investigates what the author terms 'the paradox of negative emotion' and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. It describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 19. Weight: 424.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First Trade Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256965
ISBN
9780520256965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. An analysis of the foundations of autobiography in America Num Pages: 255 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
New Hampshire
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
KST0009829
ISBN
9781584651321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, over 430 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1498.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764312908
ISBN
9780764312908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 46.30

Paperback. Why do severe recessions happen? Could we have prevented the Great Recession and its consequences? And what actions are needed to prevent such crises going forward? This book offers convincing answers to some of the most important questions faced by the economy. Num Pages: 227 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition, Enlarged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226271651
ISBN
9780226271651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.62

Paperback. One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, Lehman Brothers bank's downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This title presents the inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman and the crash that didn't have to happen. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCX; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091936150
ISBN
9780091936150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. This bookproposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation. Num Pages: 302 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL; JPS; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230321762
ISBN
9780230321762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.94
€ 66.96

Paperback. The York Notes series covers major works from medieval to modern English literature, and classic and contemporary works from Europe, America, the Commonwealth and the Third World. This text covers the selected poems of Sylvia Plath. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 4KL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582424777
ISBN
9780582424777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Hardcover. A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812245196
ISBN
9780812245196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

Paperback. Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of Sao Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. It argues that contradictory realizations of citizenship characterize all democracies. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 416 pages, 11 halftones. 6 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHBA; JPA; JPHV; JPQB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691142906
ISBN
9780691142906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

Paperback. Although the author was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. This title shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8 page colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; BM; CF; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846680403
ISBN
9781846680403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQG; YQN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 281 x 217 x 6. Weight in Grams: 331.
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570919657
ISBN
9781570919657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.70

Paperback. Ranging from the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, this book points out that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. It shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks. Num Pages: 584 pages, 6 halftones. 164 line illus. 18 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KLS; PBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 828.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Third
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691135267
ISBN
9780691135267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. Forgotten Dead uncovers a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the first comprehensive study of lynching of hundreds of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Num Pages: 322 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190610692
ISBN
9780190610692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.87

Paperback. Offers a provocative historical and philosophical treatment of the religious life of African Americans. Glaude argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways religion has been leveraged by African Americans to respond to different racial regimes in the United States. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195182897
ISBN
9780195182897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.67

Paperback. Written in an informed and accessible by one of the leading authorities in the field, A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers alike a concise and thoroughly up-to-date history of the American literary tradition. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 732.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192309
ISBN
9781405192309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.02

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