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Hardcover. This book illuminates the politics and policy of the current struggle over Social Security in light of the program's compelling history and ingenious structure. After a brief introduction describing the dramatic response of the Social Security Administration to the 9/11 terrorist attack, the book recounts Social Security's lively history. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471771722
- ISBN
- 9780471771722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.56
€ 36.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813528823
- ISBN
- 9780813528823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. New Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK1; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890000
- ISBN
- 9780801890000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.96
€ 35.96
Paperback. Takes readers through the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to show how anthropology, as conceptualized by W J McGee, the first president of the American Anthropological Association, showcased itself through programs, static displays, and exhibits for millions of people 'to show each half of the world how the other half lives'. Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 552 pages, 48 photographs, 2 maps, 10 tables, 12 appendixes, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 857.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803227965
- ISBN
- 9780803227965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. As scientists claiming specialized knowledge about indigenous peoples, especially American Indians, anthropologists used expositions to promote their quest for professional status and authority. This title shows how anthropology showcased itself "to show each half of the world how the other half lives". Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Num Pages: 552 pages, 48 photos, 2 maps, 10 tables, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803237599
- ISBN
- 9780803237599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.88
€ 59.88
Hardback. Drawing on information shared by Indigenous botanical experts and collaborators, the ethnographic and historical record, and from linguistics, palaeobotany, archaeology, phytogeography, and other fields, this book weaves together a complex understanding of the traditions of use and management of plant resources in this vast region. Num Pages: 1056 pages, 95 b&w images. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; JHMC; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 176 x 84. Weight in Grams: 2196.
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Slp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773543805
- ISBN
- 9780773543805
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.64
€ 160.64
paperback. The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFFE3; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 4039. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774814225
- ISBN
- 9780774814225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631059
- ISBN
- 9780691631059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.26
€ 150.26
hardcover. Friday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted Pennsylvania roads from Gulph Mills to Valley Forge, the site of their winter encampment. After the soldiers came the army's wagons, then hundreds of camp women. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 b+w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597973854
- ISBN
- 9781597973854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.57
€ 38.99
€ 33.57
paperback. A collection of lyric and prose poetry about identity, fragmentation, depression and addiction. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 112 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823271177
- ISBN
- 9780823271177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.39
€ 27.99
€ 26.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JHBK5; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619020689
- ISBN
- 9781619020689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 9.85
€ 23.99
€ 9.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 260 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226324463
- ISBN
- 9780226324463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. This account moves between political theory and political science, and uses resources from both fields to outline an appreciation of parties and the moral distinctiveness of partisanship. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHV; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 37. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148144
- ISBN
- 9780691148144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.78
€ 43.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNS; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 180 x 10. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590339572
- ISBN
- 9781590339572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.87€ 71.61
€ 93.87
€ 71.61
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 315 x 290 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764351112
- ISBN
- 9780764351112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.21
€ 37.99
€ 25.21
Paperback. In this work, the author analyzes the ways in which law legitimizes the social segregation of the sexes through legal decisions and illustrates the ways in which men's and women's oppressions are intertwined and how law molds the very definition of masculinity. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FV; JFSJ; LAB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814751220
- ISBN
- 9780814751220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Hardback. A collection of essays that explore Alaska, the environment, and the interaction between humans and nature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803225152
- ISBN
- 9780803225152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.19
€ 26.99
€ 24.19
Paperback. This collection of essays drawn from a range of disciplines explores American paranoia and the continuum of fear that has centred on enemies real and imagined in American culture. Contributors examine areas such as theoretical constructions of fear, racial discrimination and religious intolerance. Editor(s): Schultz, Nancy Lusignan (Professor of English, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, USA). Num Pages: 456 pages, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC; JHM; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557531155
- ISBN
- 9781557531155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.95
€ 21.95
Paperback. This book explores Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence to reveal an aesthetic vision for American belle-lettres. Features chapters on Some of the Dharma, On the Road, Desolation Angels, and Mexico City Blues with a discussion of his influence on later writers, including Hunter Thompson and Bob Dylan. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230623620
- ISBN
- 9780230623620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.51
€ 64.51
Paperback. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, this book explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power and establish independence from the institutions which define, and often limit, them as young people. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1KBBEY; AFJG; JFC; JFSG; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333781913
- ISBN
- 9780333781913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 58.29
€ 59.41
€ 58.29
Paperback. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, this work shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at different levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027497
- ISBN
- 9780674027497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.68
€ 37.99
€ 31.68
Paperback. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195098365
- ISBN
- 9780195098365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.23
€ 35.23
Hardcover. A study of the advertising campaigns and marketing strategies launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography. It demonstrates how these stand at the centre of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 colour & 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919584
- ISBN
- 9780813919584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.74
€ 86.74
Paperback. A study of the advertising campaigns and marketing strategies launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography. It demonstrates how these stand at the centre of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 colour & 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; KJSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919591
- ISBN
- 9780813919591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.59
€ 36.59