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Regional studies
Hardback. The sprawling nominating process is the critical first step every four years in the election of the president. This work shows how the nominating process works, how that compares to other countries, and how it might be changed to give a more meaningful voice to a much larger number of voters. Series: American Political Challenges. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742525931
- ISBN
- 9780742525931
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Condition: New
€ 141.97
€ 141.97
Paperback. The sprawling nominating process is the critical first step every four years in the election of the president. This work shows how the nominating process works, how that compares to other countries, and how it might be changed to give a more meaningful voice to a much larger number of voters. Series: American Political Challenges. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742525948
- ISBN
- 9780742525948
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Condition: New
€ 62.83
€ 62.83
Paperback. A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables, 1 map, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344179
- ISBN
- 9780822344179
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.47
€ 31.99
€ 28.47
Paperback. A study of the effects of translation practices and historical writings in the Philippines on questions of nationalism Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; JHMC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336648
- ISBN
- 9780822336648
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.51
€ 36.99
€ 26.51
Paperback. At the time of his arrest by French paratroopers during the Battle of Algiers in June of 1957, Henri Alleg was a French journalist who supported Algerian independence. He was interrogated for one month. During this imprisonment, Alleg was questioned under torture. This book presents an account of that month and of his triumph over his torturers. Num Pages: 74 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; GTB; HB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- Bison Books Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259607
- ISBN
- 9780803259607
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.38
€ 18.99
€ 17.38
Hardback. This work documents the drawn-out debates and the decisions that led to the complete reunification of the Amami Islands with Japan. It traces the US military's insistence on occupying Okinawa and the Amami Islands under the rationale of increased international security. Series: Studies of Modern Japan. Num Pages: 168 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739107102
- ISBN
- 9780739107102
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Condition: New
€ 172.25
€ 172.25
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Developme...
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
paperback. Argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist - and in fact have been constitutively related to - the very developmentalist narratives that have justified and naturalized post-war capitalism. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331667
- ISBN
- 9780822331667
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. The River Rhine is Europe's important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. This study focuses on the river from the moment when the Congress of Vienna established a multinational commission charged with making the river more efficient for purposes of trade and commerce in 1815. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GTB; HBJD; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985008
- ISBN
- 9780295985008
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. A vivid and provocative look at how the world gets Africa wrong, and how a resurgent Africa is forcing us to think again - updated with a new preface for the paperback Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 x 8pp colour plates & maps. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780226859
- ISBN
- 9781780226859
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. An introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the world s largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today. Editor(s): Barker, Adele Marie; Grant, Bruce. Series: The World Readers. Num Pages: 784 pages, 96 photos, incl. 8 pg color insert, 1 table, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; GTB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1126.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 896
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346487
- ISBN
- 9780822346487
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.71
€ 46.99
€ 41.71
Hardback. An anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 280 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780759101753
- ISBN
- 9780759101753
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Condition: New
€ 159.02
€ 159.02
Paperback. An examination of power struggles and ideological shifts in various social sectors where the public authority of religion has diminished, in particular, education, science, law and journalism. Together the essays depict a cultural and institutional revolution. Editor(s): Smith, Christian. Num Pages: 496 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBTB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Printing
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520235618
- ISBN
- 9780520235618
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.78
€ 41.99
€ 29.78
Hardcover. Drawing on interviews with French Environment Ministry officials, Szarka (U. of Bath, UK) adds to the sparse English language literature on environmental policy-making in France. The author first discusses theoretical constructions of the environment, Sabatier's advocacy coalition model of policy-de Num Pages: 17tabs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJPL; 3JJPR; GTB; JPQB; JPSN2; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571819994
- ISBN
- 9781571819994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.82
€ 163.82
Hardback. The 1850s offered the last remotely feasible chance for the United States to steer clear of Civil War. Yet fundamental differences between North and South about slavery and the meaning of freedom caused political conflicts to erupt again and again throughout the decade. This book analyzes the major ideas and events that resulted in the Civil War. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842027984
- ISBN
- 9780842027984
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Condition: New
€ 167.96
€ 167.96
Paperback. In Indonesia, since the coming of Islam, zakat has been a means of worship, and its collection has been voluntary and decentralized. This work argues that in the post-New Order regime zakat practice changed structurally and institutionally through the enactment of a law on zakat management, followed by the establishment of a national zakat agency. Num Pages: 111 pages. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; HBJF; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789749511084
- ISBN
- 9789749511084
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.38
€ 17.99
€ 17.38
Hardback. This is the first human geography social atlas of Europe to consider the European economy, culture, history and human and physical geography as a single land mass and a more unified European people. It provides an accessible overview of Europe and a human geography contribution to debates about a wide range of topics. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps (colour). BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; GTB; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 277 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447313533
- ISBN
- 9781447313533
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Condition: New
€ 97.55
€ 97.55
Hardback. A rich and sophisticated ethnography of a stateless indigenous society and its complex and troubling relations with its natural environment and the Soviet state that dominated it. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FCS; GTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734622
- ISBN
- 9780804734622
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Condition: New
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
Paperback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JFSR1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816640621
- ISBN
- 9780816640621
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592134854
- ISBN
- 9781592134854
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. This book proposes an original interpretation of neoliberalism in Africa. Instead of seeing neoliberal reforms as inherently destructive of the post-colonial state, the authors, who include some of Africa's best-known social scientists, focus on the resilience and adaptability of African state structures, economic systems and survival mechanisms. Editor(s): Hibou, Beatrice; Samuel, Boris; Fourchard, Laurent. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1QFG; GTB; GTF; JP; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Amalion Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782359260670
- ISBN
- 9782359260670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.09
€ 40.99
€ 34.09