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North America
Paperback. Looks at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. This book includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. Editor(s): Adler, E. Scott; Lapinski, John S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121598
- ISBN
- 9780691121598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.93
€ 46.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. For decades, advocates of congressional reforms have attempted to clean up the House committee system, without success. Adler contends that legislators resist the changes due to the ambition for reelection. using extensive evidence Adler shows a system conditioned to fail. Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line drawings, 22 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226007564
- ISBN
- 9780226007564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, this book envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratisation of power and the socialisation of property. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328667
- ISBN
- 9780822328667
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. Welfare reform was a spectacular success in New York under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and surprising because of the city's history of liberal social programs and its huge, entrenched welfare system. It changed the organizational culture, insisted on work first, adopted information technology, protected against fraud, and contracted for job placement. Editor(s): Savas, E. S. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742549272
- ISBN
- 9780742549272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.08
€ 181.08
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 422 colour & b/w photos & charts. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1280.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764348907
- ISBN
- 9780764348907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.67€ 46.12
€ 64.67
€ 46.12
Paperback. Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity trope - avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellant, fixed and malleable. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New title
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331919
- ISBN
- 9780822331919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.38
€ 32.99
€ 32.38
Paperback. This bookproposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation. Num Pages: 302 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL; JPS; JPVR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230321762
- ISBN
- 9780230321762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.83€ 66.61
€ 105.83
€ 66.61
Paperback. Tells the story of how Americans came to drink milk. This title lets us: learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease became a staple of the American diet, and encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's milk was the perfect food with divine properties. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 b&w illustrations, 12 pages of halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814719381
- ISBN
- 9780814719381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardback. Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; MBNH3; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520275478
- ISBN
- 9780520275478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 71.14
€ 94.08
€ 71.14
Paperback. Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; MBNH3; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520287488
- ISBN
- 9780520287488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.78
€ 40.99
€ 28.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 27 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; HBJK; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493028740
- ISBN
- 9781493028740
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.41
€ 17.99
€ 17.41
Hardback. This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602816
- ISBN
- 9780230602816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.99
€ 62.99
Hardback. This sequel to The Black Librarian in America (Scarecrow, 1970) contains an array of contributors representing a new generation of African American librarians, addressing the same perplexing problems that their predecessors examined. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810828308
- ISBN
- 9780810828308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.99
€ 141.99
Paperback. Shows that the end of the Religious Right doesn't signal the decline of evangelical Christianity but rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold it out to a narrow electoral agenda of such causes as opposition to gay marriage and abortion. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143293
- ISBN
- 9780691143293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.43
€ 33.99
€ 24.43
Num Pages: 144 pages, 226 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764347269
- ISBN
- 9780764347269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 31.88
€ 48.99
€ 31.88
Hardcover. E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. Num Pages: 224 pages, photographs (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; MBPK; MBX; MMH; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199988716
- ISBN
- 9780199988716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.85
€ 58.85
Paperback. "Powerful.. The crisis [Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger. "--The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and remarkably detailed.. Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780471245322
- ISBN
- 9780471245322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.49
€ 31.99
€ 24.49
Paperback. "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell Num Pages: 208 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871401540
- ISBN
- 9780871401540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.11
€ 17.99
€ 16.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739147900
- ISBN
- 9780739147900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.43
€ 150.43
Hardcover. Editor(s): Nelson, E. Charles; Elliott, David J. Series: A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book. Num Pages: 456 pages, 238 colour paintings, illustrations, photographs and maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; PDX; PST; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 217 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1858.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347264
- ISBN
- 9780820347264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.79
€ 77.79
paperback. The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Anarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today". . . . offers a chance to travel through 20,000 years of environmental change from varied perspectives".--Robert T. Lackey, Bioscience. Photographs. Num Pages: 376 pages, 259 line drawings, maps, diagrams. BIC Classification: 1KB; PS; RBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226668123
- ISBN
- 9780226668123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.62
€ 32.99
€ 25.62
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814775790
- ISBN
- 9780814775790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 58 pages, b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPG; DN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Little Bookroom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781892145024
- ISBN
- 9781892145024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.27
€ 16.99
€ 13.27
Paperback. Presents an account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Presenting a chronicle of action and courage, this memoir features the experience of the author in the South Pacific during World War II. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QSPS; BGH; HBJM; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Presidio Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891419068
- ISBN
- 9780891419068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.00
€ 19.99
€ 18.00