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North America
Paperback. * A highly topical book which examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States. * Claus Offe considers the perspectives adopted by three of Europe's greatest social scientists - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno - in their comparative writings on Europe and the US. Num Pages: 140 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745635064
- ISBN
- 9780745635064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.11
€ 22.11
Valuable new information on American Brilliant Cut Glass is presented here. Colored patterns and their variations, common and unusual shapes, changing terminology, and signature marks are all discussed in detail. Rare pieces, such as those appearing in exhibitions, are also addressed. Num Pages: 256 pages, 950 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WCN; WFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1522.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887407222
- ISBN
- 9780887407222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.35€ 46.30
€ 65.35
€ 46.30
Paperback. Emphasizes the significance and importance of the Constitution, by examining the most important influences on the American constitutional system, including the Magna Carta and the Declaration of independence. According to the author, an understanding of the Constitution is crucial to comprehending the true meaning of Supreme Court decisions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813191560
- ISBN
- 9780813191560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.76
€ 31.76
Hardcover. Written by a noted legal theorist, this book details the history and intellectual foundations of freedom of speech, using examples from Socrates, Jesus, and Sir Thomas More. It pays particular attention to freedom of speech as it relates to the US Constitution, and describes potential First Amendment issues, such as cases involving the Internet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124247
- ISBN
- 9780813124247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.09
€ 38.09
Paperback. Written by a noted legal theorist, this book details the history and intellectual foundations of freedom of speech, using examples from Socrates, Jesus, and Sir Thomas More. It pays particular attention to freedom of speech as it relates to the US Constitution, and describes potential First Amendment issues, such as cases involving the Internet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813191737
- ISBN
- 9780813191737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.96
€ 26.96
Hardcover. The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, abortion, capital punishment, and torture. Drawing on works of literature and philosophy, as well as US Supreme Court decisions, this title examines the relationship between human nature and constitutional law. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813125336
- ISBN
- 9780813125336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Paperback. The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, abortion, capital punishment, and torture. Drawing on works of literature and philosophy, as well as US Supreme Court decisions, this title examines the relationship between human nature and constitutional law. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFM; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813192307
- ISBN
- 9780813192307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.89
€ 27.89
hardcover. Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations opens up for discussion a series of issues in Native-newcomer history. It addresses all the trends in the discipline of the past two decades and never shies from showing their contradictions, as well as those in the author's own thinking as he matured as a scholar. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7ill. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 31. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087232
- ISBN
- 9780802087232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.09
€ 88.09
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hayworth, Donna C. Num Pages: 226 pages, tables, graphs, diagrams, charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 20. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612095196
- ISBN
- 9781612095196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.02€ 149.61
€ 221.02
€ 149.61
Hardback. Includes essays that offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. This title focuses on a range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJP; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260962
- ISBN
- 9780520260962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.28
€ 53.48
€ 42.28
Paperback. Ten years after the war on terror, the deportation of millions, and the ostensive rise of Latino political power, Reform Without Justice provides an analysis of both Latino migrant activism and state migration control. Num Pages: 240 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JFFN; JFSL4; JPHV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199342938
- ISBN
- 9780199342938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.91
€ 67.91
Reformed Confessionalism in Nineteenth Century America: Essays on the ...
Hamstra, Sam, Griffioen, Arie J.
Hardcover. A scholarly yet accessible resource for religious historians, mainline and evangelical ecumenists, liturgists, pastors, and educated laypersons. Series: ATLA Monograph Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC93. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810830585
- ISBN
- 9780810830585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.91
€ 111.91
The Appalachian Volunteers formed in the early 1960s, determined to eliminate poverty through education and vocational training and to improve schools and homes in the mountainous regions of the south-eastern United States. This book illustrates how the activists failed because they were indecisive about the fundamental nature of their mission. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBTB; JFFA; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813125091
- ISBN
- 9780813125091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.36
€ 48.36
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346827
- ISBN
- 9781137346827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.35€ 11.82
€ 65.35
€ 11.82
Paperback. A fresh, multicultural reading of the work of women writers of the Progressive era that places their fiction in the context of their reform journalism and political activism. Num Pages: 256 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 174 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118514
- ISBN
- 9780231118514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.87
€ 43.99
€ 30.87
Hardback. Focuses on constructing a safer and more efficient financial system based on the lessons learned from the financial debacles of the 1980s. This book contains essays that discuss the economic and political forces (both propelling and opposing banking reform) and describe the intellectual history of the deposit insurance reform provisions of FDICIA. Editor(s): Kaufman, George G. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KC; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792393832
- ISBN
- 9780792393832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.05
€ 127.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19, 17 black & white tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JM; JFFC; JPRB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801453854
- ISBN
- 9780801453854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 19, 17 black & white tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JM; JFFC; JPRB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781501700446
- ISBN
- 9781501700446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.70
€ 41.70
Paperback. An assessment of the roles of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Drawing on evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment and development and the impact of outward investment on the home economy, it outlines a series of reforms to make OPIC a more effective force. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCL; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881323429
- ISBN
- 9780881323429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.82
€ 23.99
€ 17.82
Hardback. With million-dollar awards for seemingly frivolous claims and inadequate settlements for serious injuries, the liability crisis may adversely affect product innovation and deprive customers of safer goods. Viscusi analyzes the crisis, diagnoses the causes and assesses the value of reform policies. Num Pages: 287 pages, 8 line drawings, 44 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674753235
- ISBN
- 9780674753235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.23€ 48.17
€ 52.23
€ 48.17
Paperback. Examining the health care market in a historical framework, this title analyzes the forces and events that have shaped American health care in the twentieth century and sheds light on why and how our health care system has dampened competitive market forces and failed to provide sound value for much of our health care expenditures. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878405688
- ISBN
- 9780878405688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.85
€ 70.85
Paperback. Proposes to replace the US corporate income tax with one that has a broader base at a lower rate. This book explores alternatives: the National Retail Sales Tax (NRST) and the Corporate Activity Tax (CAT). To address the issue of regressivity, they are coupled with measures to preserve the spending power of households at the lowest income levels. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881323849
- ISBN
- 9780881323849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.86
€ 23.99
€ 17.86
Hardback. Offers an account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. This title presents how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion. Series: America in the World. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145211
- ISBN
- 9780691145211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.36€ 50.63
€ 65.36
€ 50.63
Paperback. Examines what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. This book shows the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted. It argues that the reforms that stick destroy an existing policy subsystem and reconfigure the political dynamic. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 halftones. 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138978
- ISBN
- 9780691138978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15