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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities. Series: Columbia Histories of Modern American Life. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBT; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231125345
ISBN
9780231125345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.87
€ 76.79

Paperback. Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of an industrialized world. This title documents the ubiquity of Art Deco in mainstream consumerism and its connection to the emergence of the "New Woman" in American society. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 80 halftones, 12 color photos. BIC Classification: 3JJG; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 272 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231125017
ISBN
9780231125017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage of basic consumer protection legislation in 1968. Macmillan points to the importance of activity at the local level, the role of minority parties, the limited utility of the courts, and the place of lawyers and academics in providing access to power. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; GTB; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123471
ISBN
9780231123471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.39

Hardback. An important contribution to the discussion of the Arab lands before European hegemony and a detailed study of a region and power center many scholars identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. Series: History & Society of the Modern Middle East. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 graphs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1FBS; 3JF; 3JH; GTB; HBJF1; HBLL; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231123266
ISBN
9780231123266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.43
€ 79.80

Paperback. An overview of human rights concepts and laws for social workers that stresses the need to infuse human rights into social work policy and practice. The volume covers the history and development of human rights from the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 onwards. Num Pages: 304 pages, six figures. BIC Classification: 3JJP; JKSN; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231123099
ISBN
9780231123099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Explores how the family stories entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. This book also provides access to a vibrant conversation among white and black Americans about the boundaries between public life and family matters, and the meanings of race and ethnicity. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231121712
ISBN
9780231121712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. American progressives - those middle-class citizens who support fundamental change in American life - have always presented a mystery. This work investigates the lives of such reformers as Charles and Mary Beard and Wesley Clair, to investigate their influences and inspiration. Series: Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; JHBK; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121477
ISBN
9780231121477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ; JHBL; JPS; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115612
ISBN
9780231115612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.28

Hardback. Surveys the relationships of workers and trade unions to the state in Egypt, bringing to light the often overlooked effect of workers' collective actions in shaping public policy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBL; JPQB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106924
ISBN
9780231106924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 90.16

Hardback. This study examines claims that vulnerability existed in Western economic relations with the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from 1970-1990, describing historical evidence that refutes these assumptions and highlights the weaknesses in their arguments. Num Pages: 283 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JPS; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082969
ISBN
9780231082969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 89.47

Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082907
ISBN
9780231082907
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.57
€ 56.89

Paperback. Sets socialism within its historical context from pre-revolutionary France to the present. The authors contend that socialism came into being at the end of the 18th century as a response to the Industrial Revolution and as an attempt to change the consciousness and organization of society. Editor(s): Fried, Albert; Sanders, Ronald. Series: A Morningside Book S. Num Pages: 619 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
revised edition
Number of pages
619
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082655
ISBN
9780231082655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Paperback. Challenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's did so because they were caught in the crossfire between the guerillas and the army, not because revolutionary violence expressed community aspirations. Num Pages: 383 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231081832
ISBN
9780231081832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. The first book to recount the full story of U.S. covert operations in Laos during the Vietnam war. Based on newly declassified materials and interviews with dozens of key American and Lao officials, it examines the structure of the U.S. "secret war" in Laos and the long-term consequences associated with it. Num Pages: 210 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FML; 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231079778
ISBN
9780231079778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
422
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072069
ISBN
9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.67
€ 89.71

Paperback. Documenting four painful years in the life of German writer Christa Wolf, this volume of essays, letters and diary entries portrays the cultural and political situation in the former German Democratic Republic. An admired writer, Wolf was reviled after the publication of her novel "What Remains". Editor(s): Heurck, Jan Van. Translator(s): Heurck, Jan Van; Heurck, J.V. Num Pages: 324 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; BG; DNF; HBG; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press Chicago
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226905037
ISBN
9780226905037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.72

Paperback. In this text, Christopher Wilson examines narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction and film, showing how they reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics. Num Pages: 286 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFC; JKSW1; JKVF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226901336
ISBN
9780226901336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. Examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing - harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226893488
ISBN
9780226893488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. This work examines the emergence of the ethnic hero within popular culture. It looks at the dynamic rise of African-American pop icons, the social and historical contexts in which they flourished, and their powerful impact on the African-American community. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226847177
ISBN
9780226847177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.73

Hardback. By the end of the 1920s, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most complex and unique migrant communities. This work unravels the many tensions that defined the experience of this group of American citizens before and after World War II. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226796086
ISBN
9780226796086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.93
€ 78.49

Paperback. Further exploring the notion of dreaming, he brings to light the internal desires that lured Midwestern migrants to the city as well as the nostalgia that led them to dream of the homes they left behind. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768748
ISBN
9780226768748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Hardback. Presents a philosophical and historical account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy. This title considers the controversies between William Whewell and John Stuart Mill on the topics of science, morality, politics, and economics. It is suitable for philosophers and historians of science. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HPC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226767338
ISBN
9780226767338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.93
€ 78.49

Paperback. Collects autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s." This book illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the establishment, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. Editor(s): Sica, Professor Alan; Turner, Stephen. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226756257
ISBN
9780226756257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.61

Paperback. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 halftones, 8 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSG; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226746654
ISBN
9780226746654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.51

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