Regional studies
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Regional studies
Paperback. "Ms. Grzyb's book is a commendable volume .. holding to account those states and organizations, including the UN, who have so callously broken their promise of 'never again.'" Embassy Editor(s): Grzyb, Amanda F. Series: Arts Insights. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HFG; GTB; HBJH; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773537293
- ISBN
- 9780773537293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.72
€ 38.72
Hardback. On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "Obama. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." This book sets postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTB; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814760543
- ISBN
- 9780814760543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.35
€ 35.35
Paperback. Examining the Europe's single currency beyond its impact on financial markets and the economy itself, this book offers perspectives on currency change and European convergence. It offers assessments on European affairs as to whether the common currency will reshape the continent's cultures, societies, and political systems; if so, in what ways. Editor(s): Fishman, Robert M.; Messina, Anthony M. Num Pages: 328 pages, 460 tables & figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; GTB; JPSN2; KCBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268028817
- ISBN
- 9780268028817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.47
€ 36.99
€ 33.47
Paperback. Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Childs, Matt D. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 b&w photos, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1K; GTB; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217165
- ISBN
- 9780253217165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Paperback. Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; ASD; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349524
- ISBN
- 9781349349524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.77
€ 63.77
Paperback. Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288861
- ISBN
- 9781349288861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardback. Editor(s): Puri, Shalini; Castillo, Debra A. Num Pages: 267 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137603319
- ISBN
- 9781137603319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Puri, Shalini; Castillo, Debra A. Num Pages: 267 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 280 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349928361
- ISBN
- 9781349928361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Paperback. Theory on the Edge brings together some of the foremost specialists working at the interdisciplinary interface between Irish Studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and gender and sexuality studies in order to trace the contemporary development of feminist thinking and activism in Ireland. Editor(s): Giffney, Noreen. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349455331
- ISBN
- 9781349455331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Hardcover. In the 19th century the great expeditionary photographers Chr(45) William Henry Jackson, T H O'Sullivan, and William Bell Chr(45) first photographed American western landscapes for the geological and geographical surveys. This book presents forty-three pairings documenting two periods of geologic and environmental changes. Num Pages: 238 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AJC; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 315 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1708.
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Har/DVD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890134320
- ISBN
- 9780890134320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.26€ 56.23
€ 72.26
€ 56.23
Paperback. A collection of essays that underlines the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in American Women's writing. Covering three centuries of prose and poetry, it traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they transformed themselves. Editor(s): Tharp, Julie (Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Wiscon-Marshfield/Wood County, USA); MacCallum-Whitcomb, Susan (Lecturer in American Literature, University of New Brunswick, USA). Num Pages: 175 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; GTB; JFSJ1; VFXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Popular Press 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879728083
- ISBN
- 9780879728083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.49
€ 17.99
€ 17.49
paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Black Rose Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551642284
- ISBN
- 9781551642284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.39
€ 25.99
€ 22.39
Paperback. As a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined. Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFSL3; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066212
- ISBN
- 9780674066212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.07
€ 34.99
€ 29.07
Paperback. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298105
- ISBN
- 9781349298105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.41€ 45.44
€ 51.41
€ 45.44
paperback. Presents a study of the Lummi Indians of northwestern Washington and the political and economic forces that have determined their changing fortunes over the past years. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 237 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; GTB; JHM; TVT; WSXF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295978482
- ISBN
- 9780295978482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.26
€ 37.26
Hardback. This text offers a complete critical translation and commentary for Ge Hong's (283-343 ce) "Traditions of Divine Transcendents" which gathered together the narratives of those who strove to become transcendents - deathless beings with supernormal powers - in early medieval China. Series: Daoist Classics. Num Pages: 633 pages, 4 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 237 x 46. Weight in Grams: 974.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520230347
- ISBN
- 9780520230347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.58€ 78.11
€ 102.58
€ 78.11
Paperback. Traces the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. This title shows how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history including the slave trade and colonial conquest and rule. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 b&w photos, 5 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; GTB; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218063
- ISBN
- 9780253218063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Hardback. This book provides a sampling of the toolkit available to analysts interested in understanding and interpreting the complexity of the spatial structure of sub-national economies. The set of tools ranges from the more traditional to new developments. Editor(s): Sonis, Michael; Hewings, Geoffrey J. D. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 313 pages, 38 black & white illustrations, 24 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCM; RGCM; RGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642006265
- ISBN
- 9783642006265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.49
€ 128.49
Paperback. For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But, the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Custer's life spans two great eras of American history. This work offers an account of life and legend of this controversial figure. Num Pages: 540 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1K; BG; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 540
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803262669
- ISBN
- 9780803262669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.48
€ 34.99
€ 29.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Briassoulis, Helen; Van der Straaten, Jan. Series: Environment and Assessment. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JPA; KCN; RGCM; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 543.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2nd ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048153855
- ISBN
- 9789048153855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 239.60
€ 239.60