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Paperback. Includes essays from a issue of "American Quarterly" that explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. This work offers a conversation between scholars in American studies and religious studies. It explores numerous modes through which religious faith has mobilized political action. Editor(s): Griffith, R. Marie; McAlister, Melani. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 552 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801888687
ISBN
9780801888687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.39

Paperback. In assessing these threats, David contends that the United States's only viable option is to view other-state civil upheaval similarly to natural disasters and to develop a coherent, effective emergency response mechanism, which does not exist today in any systemic, nationwide form. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801889899
ISBN
9780801889899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.27

Hardback. Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile. Series: Gender Relations in the American Experience. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFT; KJS; KNPR; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801889974
ISBN
9780801889974
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.26
€ 51.03

Paperback. At once a monumental achievement and testament to an extraordinary career, On Higher Education is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of higher education. Num Pages: 600 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890215
ISBN
9780801890215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.57

Hardback. Comprehensive and carefully researched, Edge of Crisis explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1021.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890468
ISBN
9780801890468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.59
€ 74.49

Paperback. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology. Series: New Series in NASA History. Num Pages: 392 pages, 22, 12 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890819
ISBN
9780801890819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.94

Paperback. Tracing the transformation of the film industry into a legitimate "big businessof the 1920s, and explaining the fate of the female filmmaker during the silent era, Mahar demonstrates how industrial growth and change can unexpectedly open-and close-opportunities for women. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 332 pages, 27, 27 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; APFX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 489.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890840
ISBN
9780801890840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.18

Paperback. Through extensive archival research and a systematic study of sample programs from Sesame Street's first ten seasons, Morrow tells the story of Sesame Street's creation; the ideas, techniques, organization, and funding behind it; its place in public discourse; and its ultimate and unfortunate failure as an agent of commercial television reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16, 14 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890857
ISBN
9780801890857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

Paperback. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 364 pages, 42, 28 black & white halftones, 14 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890864
ISBN
9780801890864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.18

Paperback. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; PDX; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890871
ISBN
9780801890871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in preservation, conservation, recreation, planning, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in these subjects. Num Pages: 468 pages, 56, 26 maps, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890949
ISBN
9780801890949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.56

Hardback. A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator's estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death. Editor(s): Papenfuse, Edward C.; Day, Alan F.; Jordan, David William; Stiverson, Gregory A. Series: Studies in Maryland History and Culture. Num Pages: 488 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JD; 3JF; GBCB; JPQ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 35. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890970
ISBN
9780801890970
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.63
€ 88.65

Paperback. Old Main is an essential book for anyone who shares Schuman's conviction that small colleges occupy a central place in American higher education. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891021
ISBN
9780801891021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.36

Paperback. Fully revised and featuring an examination of how each of the presidents learned from history and juggled the demands on diplomacy, this comparative study of presidential war-making elucidates how effective executive leadership-or its absence-directly affects the outcome of wars. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQB; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
second edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891243
ISBN
9780801891243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.36

Hardback. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNGT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891304
ISBN
9780801891304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.39
€ 57.21

Hardback. The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12, 3 black & white line drawings, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSG; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891366
ISBN
9780801891366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.33
€ 61.81

Paperback. Chiozza clearly demonstrates that what is reported as undisputed fact-that various groups abhor American values-is in reality a complex story. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30, 30 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892080
ISBN
9780801892080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.45

Paperback. Entering a distinctively male space-the saloon-to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion-politics-again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892561
ISBN
9780801892561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

Paperback. This anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women." Editor(s): Boyd, Anne E. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892752
ISBN
9780801892752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.25

Paperback. Covering a broad range of nationalities and topics, the essays that make up this book suggest that there are many borders to cross in the new scholarship on nation and migration. Editor(s): Gutierrez, David G.; Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette A. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 388 pages, 23, 22 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892813
ISBN
9780801892813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

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