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Paperback. The foreign-born population in the United States comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia. Focusing on the period from 1965 to the year 2020, this work presents an evidence-based examination of the consequences that these demographic changes might have for the contemporary politics of the United States. Editor(s): Lee, Taeku; Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick; Ramirez, Ricardo. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 tables & 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFFN; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925547
- ISBN
- 9780813925547
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Condition: New
€ 39.09
€ 39.09
Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western Worl...
Edsall, Nicholas C. (Professor Emeritus Of Hi...
hardcover. As recently as the 1970s, gay and lesbian history was a relatively unexplored field for serious scholars. Since then however, there has been an enormous growth in gay and lesbian studies. This book provides a synthesis of this literature, drawing upon popular and scholarly writings. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliographic references, index. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 689.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922119
- ISBN
- 9780813922119
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Condition: New
€ 80.93
€ 80.93
Paperback. Soon after her 50th birthday, Melissa Walker decided to leave her suburban life and venture into the wilderness. Like many American chroniclers before her who have surrendered to the pleasures of the open road, she had no destination in mind, just two definite goals - one personal, one political. Num Pages: 319 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSJ1; RNK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921105
- ISBN
- 9780813921105
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.55
€ 20.99
€ 20.55
Hardback. Soon after her 50th birthday, Melissa Walker decided to leave her suburban life and venture into the wilderness. Like many American chroniclers before her who have surrendered to the pleasures of the open road, she had no destination in mind, just two definite goals - one personal, one political. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSJ1; RNK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921099
- ISBN
- 9780813921099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.39
€ 43.39
paperback. Argues African ways of seeing and interpreting their environments and past are not only critical to how historians write environmental history, they also have important lessons for policymakers and conservationists. It focuses on the Mpiemu people of the Central Arfrican Republic. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFJR; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC; RNA; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813921037
- ISBN
- 9780813921037
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Condition: New
€ 36.82
€ 36.82
hardcover. Challenging the denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, this work shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created an intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBJH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813919072
- ISBN
- 9780813919072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.70
€ 91.70
paperback. This collection of essays and six interviews, from the Furious Flower Conference of 1994, provides a mosaic of the major critical and aesthetic issues emerging from African-American poetry and its literary milieu. They address the main points for assessing the work of black poets. Editor(s): Gabbin, Joanne V. (Professor of English, James Madison University, USA). Num Pages: 400 pages, 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918419
- ISBN
- 9780813918419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.93
€ 37.93
Paperback. Based on a study of more than 350 narratives, this text explores literary and cinematic representations of American Indian captivity. The roles the captivity narrative has played in Western religious writings, theological claims, narrative strategies and reading practices are also examined here. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, facsim. BIC Classification: 2ABM; APFA; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916071
- ISBN
- 9780813916071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.12
€ 39.12
Hardback. These essays on Pulitzer Prize winner, Elizabeth Bishop, argue that her "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist and a lesbian, play a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical and sexual boundaries that is so much part of her poetic practice. Editor(s): Lombardi, Marilyn May. Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914442
- ISBN
- 9780813914442
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Condition: New
€ 81.33
€ 81.33
An Evening When Alone. Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 182...
O'Brien, Michael. Ed(S): O'Brien, Michael
Hardback. Editor(s): O'Brien, Michael. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 460 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1021.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914404
- ISBN
- 9780813914404
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Condition: New
€ 95.56
€ 95.56
Hardback. Communities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugs Series: Voices of Latin American Life Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFE; JFSG; JKSW1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439900031
- ISBN
- 9781439900031
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Condition: New
€ 87.60
€ 87.60
Paperback. A fascinating look at Lakota lifeways and history through the voices of medicine men and White Hat s personal stories" Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 216 x 175 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607811848
- ISBN
- 9781607811848
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.15
€ 26.99
€ 24.15
Paperback. During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's "rustication program" resettled seventeen million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and socialist reeducation. This book examines the mechanisms and dynamics of state craft in China, from the rustication program's inception to its termination. Series: Public Management and Change Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 text boxes, 7 b&w photos, 3 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JFSF; JFSP2; JPFC; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589019874
- ISBN
- 9781589019874
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Condition: New
€ 71.82
€ 71.82
Paperback. Covers archeology, history, and culture of different native nations that have called Iowa home since prehistory. This book focuses on the tribes most connected to Iowa since prehistoric times: the Ioway, Meskwaki, Sauk, Omaha and Ponca, Otoe and Missouria, Pawnee and Arikara, Illinois Confederacy, Santee and Yankton Sioux, and Winnebago. Num Pages: 160 pages, 12 drawings, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587298172
- ISBN
- 9781587298172
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.05
€ 17.99
€ 17.05
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- NavPress United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 107
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781576838310
- ISBN
- 9781576838310
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.54
€ 13.99
€ 12.54
Paperback. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537133
- ISBN
- 9781557537133
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Condition: New
€ 60.79
€ 60.79
Paperback. Analyses a new type of literature emerging from artistsAE increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This otransculturalo literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries and who transcend in their lives and creative production the borders of a single culture. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DS; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537065
- ISBN
- 9781557537065
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Condition: New
€ 60.79
€ 60.79
Hardcover. Editor(s): Weisberg, Ruth. Series: Jewish Role in American Life. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536358
- ISBN
- 9781557536358
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Condition: New
€ 36.20
€ 36.20
Paperback. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536112
- ISBN
- 9781557536112
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Condition: New
€ 60.92
€ 60.92
Paperback. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536051
- ISBN
- 9781557536051
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Condition: New
€ 60.75
€ 60.75
Paperback. Editor(s): Royal, Derek. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 330 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535849
- ISBN
- 9781557535849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.33
€ 61.33
Hardcover. Shows readers how to change the world through a series of case studies that chronicle how the author and other pioneering women in a range of fields have done so in years past. Series: Studies in Jewish Civilisation. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535696
- ISBN
- 9781557535696
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.97
€ 26.99
€ 23.97
Paperback. Presents a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), and their Hebrew creativity. This book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, and epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story and a play. Num Pages: 247 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2CSJ; DSB; HBJF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535146
- ISBN
- 9781557535146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.17
€ 54.17
Paperback. Shows how a small New York group, predominantly Jewish, moved from communist and socialist roots to become a primary voice of liberal humanism and, in the case of a few, to launch a new conservative movement. This book concentrates on Lionel Trilling as the paradigmatic liberal intellectual and also includes reconsiderations of Irving Howe. Editor(s): Goffman, Ethan; Morris, Daniel. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFCX; JFSR1; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534811
- ISBN
- 9781557534811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.95
€ 46.95