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Paperback. This book focuses on the role of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; RPT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221169
- ISBN
- 9780812221169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace. Series: The American Moment. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9, 3 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416670
- ISBN
- 9781421416670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.21
€ 34.21
Paperback. Catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in brevaries, lectionaries, commentaries and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church. Num Pages: 120 pages, 25halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; HRCG; WCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 217. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780974396347
- ISBN
- 9780974396347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
€ 27.99
€ 24.85
paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WDKX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Anniversary,Commemorative
- SKU
- V9781414364544
- ISBN
- 9781414364544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.93
€ 17.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fire. The author narrates the struggles of the rangers. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 pages b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780547394602
- ISBN
- 9780547394602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.24
€ 20.99
€ 18.24
Hardback. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, this title chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 halftone. 30 line illus. 48 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCPC; HBT; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147383
- ISBN
- 9780691147383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.36
€ 49.99
€ 36.36
Hardback. Lessons on product, quality, innovation, and longevity from the "First Family of Bourbon" The Big Man of Jim Beam delves into the life and times of legendary distiller F. Booker Noe III, grandson of Jim Beam and father of the bourbon boom. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; BGB; KJZ; KNDF; KNSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119320159
- ISBN
- 9781119320159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.24
€ 25.99
€ 21.24
paperback. Visit Brooklyn's vast historical landmarks, from the familiar to the hidden. Num Pages: 302 pages, 50 illustrations / 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 2591 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- NYU Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814747858
- ISBN
- 9780814747858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
€ 19.99
€ 19.87
Paperback. Whether you are a tourist or a native New Yorker, you can enjoy this informative walking guide to New York City. The historic tours connect the contemporary city with the snapshots of yesterday, blending social and cultural history with the evolution of different ethnic and cultural communities. Num Pages: 390 pages, 50 illustrations, photographs, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 2591 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814747483
- ISBN
- 9780814747483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
€ 19.99
€ 19.87
Paperback. When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters. This book presents the story of this city. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTB; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099477594
- ISBN
- 9780099477594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Series: G.I.: The Illustrated History of the American Soldier, His Uniform & His Equipment. Num Pages: 72 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBWN; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 257 x 6. Weight in Grams: 295. 4to. Illustrated. Some minor wear otherwise a good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Greenhill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KEX0264874
- ISBN
- 9781853675287
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Why do truckers accept these conditions and pay? Why can't they achieve what workers did in the past through collective action and union organization? This book looks at what has happened to blue-collar jobs since the trucking industry was deregulated. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278127
- ISBN
- 9780520278127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278110
- ISBN
- 9780520278110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 73.24
€ 94.03
€ 73.24
hardcover. When famine struck Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the US responded with a two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The tale told here is largely derived from the diaries, memoirs and letters of the American participants. Num Pages: 832 pages, 94 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1429.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 832
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744676
- ISBN
- 9780804744676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.35
€ 171.35
Paperback. Lary May offers a reexamination of the connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, and an interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold War. Num Pages: 364 pages, 69 halftones, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; APFA; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226511634
- ISBN
- 9780226511634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.69
€ 43.99
€ 34.69
Hardback. Documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings in the 1890s through its sale to Warner Bros. in 1925. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Bibliography: p124-133. - Includes index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBT; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- New and Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810820302
- ISBN
- 9780810820302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.16
€ 156.16
Paperback. Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; KCF; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749695
- ISBN
- 9780804749695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
Hardcover. A biography of the entrepreneur who, working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a $1,500 investment, began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. Num Pages: 432 pages, 75 b&w photos, 25 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGB; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5868 x 3937 x 34. Weight in Grams: 871.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253352545
- ISBN
- 9780253352545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
Paperback. A collection of essays offering a comprehensive amendment-by-amendment, clause-by-clause account of the Bill of Rights' recent transmutation. The contributors explore the original meaning of the amendments, as well as the history, theory and practice behind those amendments. Editor(s): Hickok, Eugene W. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPVH; LND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813913360
- ISBN
- 9780813913360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.59
€ 46.59
Hardcover. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds - reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet - marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. This study uses what remains of the mounds - excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s - to gain a new understanding of the Monacans Num Pages: 176 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3H; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417. Fine copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KST0010105
- ISBN
- 9780817314385
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds - reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet - marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. This study uses what remains of the mounds - excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s - to gain a new understanding of the Monacans Num Pages: 176 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3H; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417. Fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KST0010106
- ISBN
- 9780817314385
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. A series of biotechnology entrepreneurs tell their own stories in this book. It also looks at the role of venture capital and other forms of financing through the key stages of growth. A detailed introduction outlines the emergence of the biotech boom and its progress to date. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; KJC; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Edition
- 1992nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333550212
- ISBN
- 9780333550212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
Hardcover. First published in double elephant size in the first half of the nineteenth century, The Birds of America is famous for its stunning life-size illustrations of birds. This complete edition of Audubon's classic work is reproduced from the Natural History Museum's original folio and printed using the latest high quality techniques. Num Pages: 448 pages, 435 colour artworks. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGN; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 328 x 221 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2666.
- Publisher
- The Natural History Museum
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Complete ed of Audubon's classic work
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780565093396
- ISBN
- 9780565093396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.51
€ 52.99
€ 40.51
Hardcover. A never-before-published edition of the rare chromolithographic Audubon prints of American birds. Num Pages: 256 pages, 150 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC; AGB; AGN; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 590 x 390 x 60. Weight in Grams: 6759.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393088656
- ISBN
- 9780393088656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 326.74€ 300.79
€ 326.74
€ 300.79