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The Americas
paperback. Journeying to the dusty heartlands of America's Bible Belt, the author goes in search of the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans believe the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes. Are they devout or deranged? Why do they seem so cheerful about the end of the world? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091910884
- ISBN
- 9780091910884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 6.75
€ 34.99
€ 6.75
paperback. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. This book offers a devastating analysis of American Imperialism, drawing alarming connections between its repression of information inside the US and its aggressive empire-building abroad. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTQ; JPHV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099135012
- ISBN
- 9780099135012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.52
€ 19.99
€ 13.52
unknown_binding. October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 black and white, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBTW; HBWS; JWMN. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780748696307
- ISBN
- 9780748696307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 29.39
€ 39.99
€ 29.39
paperback. The U.S. economy faced the prospect of a serious recession even prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The afflictions that had deepened under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - wage stagnation, rising inequality and wildly inflated stock markets - sharpened further. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- VERSO
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844675340
- ISBN
- 9781844675340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 6.75
€ 34.99
€ 6.75
hardcover. Shedding light on British war aims and maritime strategy, this book is suitable for scholars of Napoleonic Wars and British political, diplomatic, economic and maritime/military history. Series: International Library of Historical Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSP; 1KLS; 3JH; HBLL; HBWH; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- I B TAURIS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848851962
- ISBN
- 9781848851962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 7.81
€ 19.99
€ 7.81
Paperback. The landscape of the Calumet, an area that sits astride the Indiana-Illinois state line at the southern end of Lake Michigan was shaped by the glaciers that withdrew toward the end of the last ice age - about 45,000 years ago. This book deals with this region. Num Pages: 264 pages, 150 b&w photos, 20 figures, 2 color photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; RGBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253012227
- ISBN
- 9780253012227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
paperback. Series: ILR Press Books. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- ILR Press United States
- Edition
- Updated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487330
- ISBN
- 9780801487330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Hardcover. This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger--a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393087727
- ISBN
- 9780393087727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.50
€ 29.99
€ 28.50
Hardcover. Focuses on the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. This work explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. It investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. Num Pages: 474 pages, 23 half-tones, 4 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 33. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 474
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520073487
- ISBN
- 9780520073487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98€ 49.44
€ 62.98
€ 49.44
Paperback. The story of the fighting at Monocacy, known as the "Battle that Saved Washington." A pivotal day and an even more pivotal campaign that went right to the gates of Washington, D.C. Series: Emerging Civil War Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 maps, 150 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Savas Beatie
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611213461
- ISBN
- 9781611213461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.53
€ 18.53
Paperback. Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. Editor(s): Reinarman, Craig; Levine, Harry G. Num Pages: 359 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH1; JPQB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202429
- ISBN
- 9780520202429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.20
€ 42.20
Paperback. A collection containing over 300 pieces of literature by, about, and in the interests of the working class in America. Organized in an historical fashion, with texts are grouped around key historical and cultural developments in working-class life, this volume records the literature of the working classes from the early laborers of the 1600. Num Pages: 960 pages, 17 halftones, 14 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 245 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195144567
- ISBN
- 9780195144567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 164.03
€ 164.03
paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPVR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816645619
- ISBN
- 9780816645619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
paperback. A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JEST Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349119526
- ISBN
- 9780349119526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.33
€ 19.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231083959
- ISBN
- 9780231083959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.83
€ 41.83
Paperback. During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers". He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood. This text brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 b/w illustrations, 1 table, 22 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH; BGF; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHN0001970
- ISBN
- 9780520215436
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Pitt Latin American Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; HBT; KCZ; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822961802
- ISBN
- 9780822961802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 50.31
€ 53.99
€ 50.31
Hardcover. A calendar that deals with New York throughout the ages. It offers a daily dose of the city that never sleeps. It is suitable for those of you whose date books have been replaced by smartphones. Each day features a new photo and a related quote, ensuring a constant source of inspiration right on your desktop. Num Pages: 736 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AJC; WZS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 178 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- TASCHEN
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KMK0022687
- ISBN
- 9783836537728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.77
€ 8.77
Paperback. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a community moves to a new geographic setting. Exploring the consciousness of peoples defined as 'creoles' who moved from the Old World to the New World, this work investigates the creolization of literary forms and genres in the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Editor(s): Bauer, Ralph; Mazzotti, Jose Antonio. Num Pages: 520 pages, 13 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859681
- ISBN
- 9780807859681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478222
- ISBN
- 9780801478222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.90
€ 23.99
€ 21.90
paperback. In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English. Editor(s): Cook, Ramsay. Num Pages: 177 pages, Illustrations, 1 facsim., maps, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLH; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Nachdruck
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802060006
- ISBN
- 9780802060006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. A guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. This wok tells accounts of Alexander Hamilton falling mortally wounded on the dueling grounds of Weehawken; Dutch Schultz getting pumped full of lead in the men's room of the Palace Chop House in Newark; and a gang of Islamic terrorists in Jersey City. Num Pages: 320 pages, 109 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rivergate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813541778
- ISBN
- 9780813541778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.87
€ 33.99
€ 30.87
paperback. Presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Num Pages: 208 pages, diagrams, figures. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813543734
- ISBN
- 9780813543734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.41
€ 44.99
€ 39.41
Paperback. Investigates why key Chicana/o writers, including Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa, Oscar Acosta, Miguel Mendez, and Virginia Grise, from the 1950s to the present day, have persistently referenced Asian people and places in the course of articulating their political ideas. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813577166
- ISBN
- 9780813577166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10