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hardcover. In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. This title chronicles the history of the 5th Street Gym. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 colour & 87 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; WSBV; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813034362
ISBN
9780813034362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.78

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Harrold, Stanley; Miller, Randall M. Series: Southern Dissent Series. Num Pages: 2408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
2408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813032733
ISBN
9780813032733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.46

Paperback. Featuring photographs, drawings, tables, and maps, this work describes each of Florida's bat species, including its foraging methods, range, roosting habitat, reproductive behaviors, and echolocation - the process by which bats use sonar to navigate and capture insects in the night sky. It also advises how to conduct bat walks. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 colour photos, 50 b&w illustrations, 20 maps, 7 tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; PSVW7; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813029856
ISBN
9780813029856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.61

paperback. Provides a guide to the identification, range, habitat, and status of snakes found within eastern and central North America, from west Texas, to western Manitoba, to the eastern seaboard. This work is illustrated with 251 color photos showing species, subspecies and most natural intergrades and color phases. Num Pages: 368 pages, 251 colour photos 98 maps, 18 drawings, references, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; PSVW5; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 689.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813029351
ISBN
9780813029351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

hardcover. The success of the US quest to explore space depends upon NASA's Deep Space Network, a grid that provides the antennas and satellite links that track and control craft launched from Earth. Douglas J. Mudgway tells the story of the challenges, successes, and failures that beset the dedicated engineers who turned the initial vision into reality. Num Pages: 264 pages, 55 b&w illustrations, 3 tables, 2 appendixes, notes, reference, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780813028057
ISBN
9780813028057
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.26

paperback. A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the 86 species and subspecies of snakes and legless lizards living within the state of Florida. Each reptile is illustrated with a colour photograph and the accompanying text provides specific details on appearance, size, behaviour and venomous qualities. Num Pages: 256 pages, 170 colour photographs, 86 maps, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; PSVW5; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813026367
ISBN
9780813026367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

hardcover. Windover in Florida is the New World's largest cemetery of bog burials. This book is a summary of the multiple investigations conducted there by archaeologists and specialists and provides an overview of the population, and in particular the mortuary customs, from this early archaic era. Editor(s): Doran, Glen H. Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 13 maps, 41 figures, 174 b&w photographs, 65 tables, 3 appendixes, notes, bibliography, i. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813025100
ISBN
9780813025100
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.73

Hardback. This collection organizes over 200 columns into 18 chapters, chronicling events and defining the issues that have kept the South Florida melting pot bubbling throughout the 80s and 90s. An introductory essay provides an overview of Hiassen's career and outlines his concerns as a journalist. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DN; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813017174
ISBN
9780813017174
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.46

paperback. Shows the interplay between the major groups travelling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830-1860. It's a lively, extensively illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DFG; 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780809335565
ISBN
9780809335565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. A diverse collection of provocative plays that respond to the highly charged, post 9/11 political landscape. Though not all of the plays deal explicitly with the Al Qaeda attacks, they collectively reveal themes of sorrow and anxiety, moral indignation, a Editor(s): Havis, Allan. Series Editor(s): Schanke, Robert A. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DD; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809329540
ISBN
9780809329540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Paperback. Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre, this book demonstrates Broadway's ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in soceity - from economic and political anxiety surrounding WWII to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the "me" generation. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809326679
ISBN
9780809326679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.26

Paperback. A biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-20th-century author, poet, and playwright. Theatre historian Robert A. Schanke mines lost archival materials and interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and construct an account of her life and loves on Broadway and in Hollywood. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809325795
ISBN
9780809325795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.26

Paperback. Series: Mulicultural Education Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFC; EBA; JNFR; JNSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Teachers' College Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807755129
ISBN
9780807755129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.95

paperback. A crucial study of the education of African Canadian children as it reflects their citizenship and lives in their chosen country. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL3; JNA; JNFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773548084
ISBN
9780773548084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.94

Paperback. United Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Providing the history of United Artists from 1919 through 1951, this title chronicles the company's struggle for survival, its rise to prominence as the Tiffany of the industry, and its near extinction in the 1940s. Num Pages: 360 pages, 57 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299230043
ISBN
9780299230043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.80

Paperback. In this text, Richard P. Thiel tells the tale of his ten years at the centre of efforts to track and protect the recovery of wolves in Northern Wisconsin. The book conveys the wonder, frustrations, humour and hard work of field biologists, as well as the politics that accompanies their profession. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w photographs, 21 line drawings, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; PSVP; RNKH; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299174743
ISBN
9780299174743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.30

Paperback. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Editor(s): White, Edmund. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGB; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299170745
ISBN
9780299170745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.30

Paperback. Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day. Series: Science & literature series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299147440
ISBN
9780299147440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.80

Paperback. A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community "after freedom", almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation. Series: New Directions in Anthropological Writing S. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 28. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299137847
ISBN
9780299137847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.02

Paperback. Argues that confrontation with major paradigms of world history has marked African and Latin American history during the last quarter-century and that the process has dramatically restructured historical and theoretical understanding of peasantries, labour and the capitalist world system. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLC; 1KLS; HBAH; JHBL; JHM; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299136840
ISBN
9780299136840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.62

Paperback. A reference for those who intend to introduce practices to reduce and prevent crime. It forms part of a series of tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to support countries in implementing the rule of law and the development of crime prevention and criminal justice reform. Series: Criminal Justice Handbook Series. Num Pages: 126 pages, colour line drawings, colour tables, figures, charts, graphs. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 1KJ; JKVC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 295 x 208 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
United Nations United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9789211302691
ISBN
9789211302691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.73

Hardcover. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academica Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936320844
ISBN
9781936320844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.99

Hardcover. Author Jonathan Davis was born in Evansville, Indiana. In the early autumn of 1993, he made the acquaintance of Marie Barrow when they both worked on a documentary concerning the Barrow Gang. From that time until her passing in early 1999, Marie and Jonathan worked on several Barrow-related projects, including this manuscript. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 171 x 32. Weight in Grams: 804.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stephen F. Austin University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936205127
ISBN
9781936205127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.28

Paperback. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. This book describes, with brutal honesty, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Editor(s): Moss, Todd. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBBWK; KCM; LNCR; PHDY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Centre for Global Development United States
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933286709
ISBN
9781933286709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

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