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The Americas

Hardback. Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era's most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. There they produced some of the most important work of their careers. This catalogue examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, and George Segal. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 176 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; ACXD; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 225 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1032.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300174373
ISBN
9780300174373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. A guide to California's trees, it provides a photographic compendium of 107 native and 311 ornamental species. It gives the what, how, and where of tree selection, planting, and design, paying attention to the need for improving sustainability. It features an overview of topography, geography and climates that define California's unique landscape. Num Pages: 542 pages, 1400 color illustrations, 5 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2279.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
542
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251243
ISBN
9780520251243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 54.42

Hardback. With a comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, this book covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Editor(s): Mooney, Harold A.; Zavaleta, Erika. Num Pages: 1008 pages, 14 maps, 142 b/w images, 53 tables, 258 color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; PSAF; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 50. Weight in Grams: 3221.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
1008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520278806
ISBN
9780520278806
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.54
€ 116.79

Paperback. We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive. This title examines the use and abuse of images today. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; APT; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124407
ISBN
9780691124407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? This title examines the paradox of race in Barack Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. It assesses the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America. Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691137308
ISBN
9780691137308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.35

Paperback. Treats the diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. This guide features a whole-plant approach to seed identification that provides descriptions of the seeds, as well as of the habit, trunk, bark, leaves, infructescence, and fruit of Amazonian plants. Series: Princeton Field Guides. Num Pages: 192 pages, 750 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KLS; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691146478
ISBN
9780691146478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.78

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149165
ISBN
9780691149165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.00

Hardback. Intends to ponder the cultures that generated the bulk of our global contamination legacy. This title focuses on the psycho-social dynamics of chemical contamination. It deals with nuclear events, both accidents, but also the closed cities and closed society needed to produce a nuclear context. Editor(s): Edelstein, Michael, PhD; Tysiachniouk, Maria; Smirnova, Lyudmila V. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; JFF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 884.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
522
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780762313716
ISBN
9780762313716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.28

Paperback. Derek Chang chronicles the American Baptist Home Mission Society's efforts to evangelize among African Americans in the South and Chinese migrants on the Pacific Coast during the late nineteenth century. He brings together for the first time African American and Chinese American religious histories in an innovative comparative approach. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HRCX7; JFSL1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222067
ISBN
9780812222067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Series: Indigenous Americas. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816666775
ISBN
9780816666775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. This assessment of American literary history explores the ways in which the interplay of written and oral forms shaped the foundations of both national literature and political identity. It examines numerous texts, written from colonial to modern times, considering how speech and writing interact. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231084987
ISBN
9780231084987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.38

Paperback. Using the 2000 Little Sisters v Customs Canada case as a springboard, Kendall argues that gay male pornography violates the legal right to sex equality, and that there is little to be gained from sexualized conformity. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFMP; JFSK2; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774810777
ISBN
9780774810777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803236271
ISBN
9780803236271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.42

Paperback. Written at a time when the traditions of the formerly omnipotent Anglo-Saxon male were crumbling under the pressures of a changing world, this book interprets racial conflict, inflation, the ecological crisis, and power groups as symptoms rather than causes of the American malaise. Num Pages: 221 pages, Appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
Bison Books Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259850
ISBN
9780803259850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
Expanded and Updated ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813520018
ISBN
9780813520018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.07

Paperback. The Weathermen - a US-based, revolutionary splinter group of Students for a Democratic Society - advocated the overthrow of the government and capitalism. Here, the author traces her involvement with this group, and her transformation from a shy, married graduate student into a go-go dancing, street-fighting "macho mama." Editor(s): Browder, Laura. Series: Subterranean Lives Series. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813540931
ISBN
9780813540931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Paperback. This on-the-ground account of a celebrated Brazilian agrarian movement highlights the contingent nature of social movements and political identities more broadly. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 photos, 13 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822345398
ISBN
9780822345398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.17

Paperback. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439913949
ISBN
9781439913949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable. Num Pages: 284 pages, 47 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415934640
ISBN
9780415934640
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 223.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815602316
ISBN
9780815602316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.93

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