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Hardcover. Reports of tinkering's death have been greatly exaggerated. In this book, readers will see how tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations such as the personal computer and Ethernet, and smaller scale inventions with great potential. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KJH. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 248 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418. 224 pages. Reports of tinkering's death have been greatly exaggerated. In this book, readers will see how tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations such as the personal computer and Ethernet, and smaller scale inventions with great potential. Cateogry: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KJH. Dimension: 248 x 164 x 22. Weight: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465009237
- ISBN
- 9780465009237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99
€ 41.99
Paperback. A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFM; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 194 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The Perseus Books Group United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780465015344
- ISBN
- 9780465015344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.39
€ 35.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062262844
- ISBN
- 9780062262844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.15
€ 16.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780892725649
- ISBN
- 9780892725649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.96
€ 14.96
Paperback. The White House Situation Room is arguably the most important facility in the most important building in the world. As the president's intelligence and alert center, it provides vital communication and crisis management capabilities to the chief executive and his advisers. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781574887006
- ISBN
- 9781574887006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.79
€ 20.79
Hardback. Based on evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions - such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems - impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 58 line illus. 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; KCZ; LAZ; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136042
- ISBN
- 9780691136042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 42.14
€ 53.48
€ 42.14
Hardback. A detailed and thorough challenge to the Revisionist historians' claims that the Vietnam War was in fact won in the period after the 1968 Tet Offensive only to be thrown away by media influence on a war weary public. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 illustrations, 27 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780700623525
- ISBN
- 9780700623525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.76
€ 74.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Wieseltier, Leon. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810124882
- ISBN
- 9780810124882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.31
€ 32.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. This work tells the story of how changes in patenting - an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation - have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJMV6; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691127941
- ISBN
- 9780691127941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Presenting stories that represent the diversity of Virginia's Indians, this book offers an introduction to the history of Virginia Indians, a native American community. Num Pages: 112 pages, 45 b&w illustrations, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- Second
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925486
- ISBN
- 9780813925486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.19
€ 17.99
€ 17.19
Board book.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Our World of Books United States
- Number of pages
- 24
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780977797936
- ISBN
- 9780977797936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.40
€ 11.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560009832
- ISBN
- 9781560009832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.78
€ 49.78
Paperback. Being Red is an intimate memoir of an extraordinary time--the years Howard Fast, one of our nation's most popular authors, spent in the American Communist Party, and under the constant surveillance of the FBI. 8-page photo insert. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; FV; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 589.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781563244995
- ISBN
- 9781563244995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.06
€ 50.99
€ 42.06
Paperback. Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Num Pages: 178 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Left Coast Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781598745498
- ISBN
- 9781598745498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.51
€ 57.51
Hardcover. An insider's look at the Jim Beam brand, from a 7th generation Master Distiller Written by the 7th generation Beam family member and Master Distiller, Frederick Booker Noe III, Beam, Straight Up is the first book to be written by a Beam, the family behind the 217-year whiskey dynasty and makers of one of the world's best-selling bourbons. Num Pages: 206 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJ; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118378366
- ISBN
- 9781118378366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.16
€ 24.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. Days of Valor tells the story of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, a major combat unit of the US Army that served in the Vietnam War. The brigade was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was sent out to Vietnam in December 1966. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 pages of b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781935149385
- ISBN
- 9781935149385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.16
€ 29.99
€ 25.16
Hardcover. This work weaves the stories of individual Alabamians and Alabama-related military units into a brief narrative history of World War II. Interviews with veterans of the war-front and home-front supplement research from archives, newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs and secondary sources. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567. Clean copy in good dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0236713
- ISBN
- 9780817307370
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This work weaves the stories of individual Alabamians and Alabama-related military units into a brief narrative history of World War II. Interviews with veterans of the war-front and home-front supplement research from archives, newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs and secondary sources. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567. Clean copy in good dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0236714
- ISBN
- 9780817307370
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Examining the dynamics of industry, recreation, and environment; Chiang explores the social history of Monterey's development from a seaside resort to a working-class fishing town and, finally, to a tourist attraction again Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; KNAF; KNSG; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991399
- ISBN
- 9780295991399
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, Photos Throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 53. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804140430
- ISBN
- 9780804140430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.41
€ 18.99
€ 16.41
Paperback. Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 534. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780252070105
- ISBN
- 9780252070105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. Presents a pioneering exploration of Asian American visual art. This title focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 384 pages, 65 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; ACX; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342045
- ISBN
- 9780822342045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Series: War Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; APFA; HBJK; HBLX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813564029
- ISBN
- 9780813564029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.76
€ 46.99
€ 41.76
Hardcover. A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871407351
- ISBN
- 9780871407351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.39
€ 32.99
€ 28.39