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Regional studies

Paperback. This volume presents advanced studies that consider the fundamental difference of urban center versus decentralization that operates in the cities of New York and Los Angeles, while comparing politics and culture in each area. Editor(s): Halle, David. Num Pages: 472 pages, 39 halftones, 33 maps, 25 figures, 48 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 1KBBWF; GTB; JFSG; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226313702
ISBN
9780226313702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Scholars discuss the theme of resistance within 20th-century Japanese American communities. Editor(s): Fiset, Louis; Nomura, Gail M. Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography. Num Pages: 22 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984612
ISBN
9780295984612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.81

Paperback. A guide to contemporary approaches to studying Ireland in the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Geary, Laurence M.; Kelleher, Margaret. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558286
ISBN
9781904558286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Offers an account of two second-generation Japanese Americans who were demonized as threats to national security during World War II. This book follows their lives before, during, and after the war. It leads through the half century of uncertainty and trauma endured by the family before it was able to confront issues central to its existence. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; BGH; GTB; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295985855
ISBN
9780295985855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 46 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 208 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Imprint unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9789881613875
ISBN
9789881613875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

paperback. Editor(s): Minter, William; Hovey, Gail; Cobb, Charles. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
AFRICA WORLD PRESS United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592215751
ISBN
9781592215751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.94

Paperback. Presents new work by the leading Japanese American playwright working today. Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; AN; DD; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985015
ISBN
9780295985015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Olwig, Kenneth; Jones, Michael. Num Pages: 576 pages, 130 b&w photos, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1DN; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 254 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639151
ISBN
9780816639151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. Normalizing Japan explains how politics and identity have interacted in postwar Japan to shape Japans distinctive security practices, offering a useful framework for understanding the important change taking place in Japanese security policy today. Series: Studies in Asian Security. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804700290
ISBN
9780804700290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.11

Hardback. This volume offers a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the later 20th century. It explores themes including acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and frontier expansion. Num Pages: 480 pages, bibliography, index, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; HBJK; RGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 186 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742500181
ISBN
9780742500181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 213.62

Hardcover. Explores the changes that had taken place in the conception of the North during the 18th century, changes that were a symptom of an ambivalent understanding of the North vis-a-vis the South. This study encompasses areas ranging from botany and geography, to Nordic literature and language, to science and the arts. Editor(s): Povlsen, Karen Klitgaard. Num Pages: 411 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; 3JH; GTB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 173 x 9. Weight in Grams: 1100.
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
411
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779342644
ISBN
9788779342644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.59

Hardcover. Num Pages: 567 pages, Ill.(some col.).figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JM; GBCY; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260. . 4to. Very good copy.First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
BMF Business Services
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KEX0287760
ISBN
9780953767250
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of the ways that, during the 1990s, Turkish citizens began to express nostalgia for the secularist and nationalist foundations of the Turkish Republic. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVP; 1F; GTB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338956
ISBN
9780822338956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Hardback. This is a collection of creative works by photographers, writers, poets and artists from Vietnam and its diasporas, and critical pieces by scholars in the fields of anthropology, art history, history, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American and Vietnamese Francophone literary and cultural studies. Editor(s): Winston, Jane Bradley; Chau-Pech, Leakthina. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMV; DQ; DSBH; GTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 543.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312238728
ISBN
9780312238728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.97

Hardback. A focus on the dynamics of oligopoly games. Several contributions show how easily the unique Nash equilibria in some most traditional oligopoly models may lose stability, giving way to complex phenomena, such as periodic/chaotic processes and to multi stability of coexistent attractors. Editor(s): Puu, Tonu; Sushko, Irina. Num Pages: 316 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCA; KCC; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9783540431862
ISBN
9783540431862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.12

Hardback. At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of California, Berkeley. This title presents a luminous portrait of this woman. Num Pages: 397 pages, 46 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; GTB; JFSJ1; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press California
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
397
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520227262
ISBN
9780520227262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 48.91

Hardcover. The worship of Confucious is one of the least understood aspects of Confucianism, even though the temple and the cult were visible signs of Confucianism's existence in imperial China. This collection is an attempt to recover the meaning and significance of the religious side of Confucianism. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 380 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 35. Weight in Grams: 818.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009615
ISBN
9780674009615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 41.87

Hardback. Including an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, this book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and cultural history, including urban growth and housing, the mysterious underworld of border-town nightlife, a film noir treatment of the Peteet family suicides, borderlands cuisine, the life of squatters and popular religion. Editor(s): Wood, Andrew Grant. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 320 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 190 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842051729
ISBN
9780842051729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.29

paperback. The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions, but the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. This book clarifies why Valley culture presents so many apparent contradictions as they delve into issues that are 'on the edge of the law'. Num Pages: 367 pages, 38 figures, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; GTB; JHMC; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292714755
ISBN
9780292714755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

paperback. A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 274 pages, 22 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
KJH0000327
ISBN
9780520204355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.14

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