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Paperback. When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. Presenting an analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, this title uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996. Num Pages: 320 pages, 86 tables, 1 map, 1 line figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HBTB; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214866
- ISBN
- 9780520214866
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.73
€ 35.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. Explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. This book presents the story of the Soviet Zion. It sheds light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture. Editor(s): Berman, Bradley. Num Pages: 128 pages, 96 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 6. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520209909
- ISBN
- 9780520209909
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Paperback. In this text, Lea Jacobs uses the "fallen woman" film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages, 49. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780520207905
- ISBN
- 9780520207905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.68
€ 35.99
€ 26.68
Hardback. Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. Series: Medicine and Society S. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 3JJ; MBN; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205475
- ISBN
- 9780520205475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.61€ 53.52
€ 68.61
€ 53.52
Paperback. A study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. This analytical narrative of the young Turk period (1908-1918), discusses both Arab concerns and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs. Num Pages: 266 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJF1; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204461
- ISBN
- 9780520204461
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
Paperback. Explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. This book avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Num Pages: 443 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; JFF; JFSL1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition. Wraps.
- SKU
- V9780520204195
- ISBN
- 9780520204195
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.74
€ 45.99
€ 32.74
Paperback. Using contemporary Algerian politics as a case study of the intellectual movement labeled 'Third Worldism', this title elucidates the broader transformations affecting countries of the Third World that once embraced ideologies of state-centered radical change. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJ; JFSR2; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520203013
- ISBN
- 9780520203013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.38
€ 38.99
€ 28.38
Paperback. From her perspective as both a participant and an observer, the author of this study examines the nonviolent direct action movement, an offshoot of the American civil rights movement, which flourished in the USA from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Num Pages: 332 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JPVH; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780520084339
- ISBN
- 9780520084339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.39
€ 38.99
€ 28.39
paperback. The Japanese women whose memoirs, journals and essays are collected in this volume constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of World War II. The women reveal why they joined left-wing groups in order to fight oppression and injustice. Editor(s): Hane, Mikiso. Translator(s): Hane, Mikiso. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520084216
- ISBN
- 9780520084216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. With the emergence of Abstract Expressionism after World War II, the attention of the international art world turned from Paris to New York. In this book, Dore Ashton captures the vitality of the cultural milieu in which the New York School artists worked and argued from the 1930s to the 1950s. Num Pages: 246 pages, 52 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; ACXD9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press Berkeley, CA
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520081062
- ISBN
- 9780520081062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.73
€ 34.99
€ 25.73
Hardcover. This is a detailed study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in pre-war Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II. The analysis is complemented by an extensive use of biographical and archival material. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 illustrations, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520078215
- ISBN
- 9780520078215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.61€ 53.80
€ 68.61
€ 53.80
Hardcover. Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". This book records Cendrars' experiences on Hollywood's streets and at its studios and hottest clubs. Illustrator(s): Guerin, Jean. Translator(s): White, Garrett. Num Pages: 195 pages, photograph, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BGB; KNTC; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520078079
- ISBN
- 9780520078079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 42.32
€ 53.24
€ 42.32
Paperback. Tracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, this book presents a historical portrait of growing up. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520076419
- ISBN
- 9780520076419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
€ 28.48
Paperback. Describes what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use. In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; 3JH; 3JJ; CF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780520076259
- ISBN
- 9780520076259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.80
€ 34.99
€ 25.80
Hardback. The Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470673621
- ISBN
- 9780470673621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.02
€ 117.02
Hardcover. Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JJ; HBJF; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780470673010
- ISBN
- 9780470673010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.65
€ 85.65
Paperback. A prize-winning, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in Southern California that explains a sweeping realignment of American politics. Num Pages: 560 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC99; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393339048
- ISBN
- 9780393339048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. "A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."-New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 40. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780393326406
- ISBN
- 9780393326406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
Hardcover. A literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life. Editor(s): Freeman, Anne. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393057324
- ISBN
- 9780393057324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.71
€ 26.99
€ 23.71
Hardback. The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists Editor(s): Zinn, Betsy Stepina. Num Pages: 1578 pages, 1317 color + 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; ACXD9; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 248. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1578
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780300227420
- ISBN
- 9780300227420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 680.23€ 505.23
€ 680.23
€ 505.23