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Hardback. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032880
ISBN
9780674032880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.19

Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033047
ISBN
9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.34

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033139
ISBN
9780674033139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Hardback. 19th century theories of race were meant to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of civilizations. What they produced instead were the modern foundations for prejudice and its politics. The author investigates the links between erudition and race, showing the affinities between the social sciences and the concept of 'race'. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674034044
ISBN
9780674034044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.91
€ 53.68

Hardback. Mixing idealism with violence, abolitionist John Brown cut a wide swath across the United States before winding up in Virginia, where he led an attack on the US armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. But he was quickly captured and, after a short but stormy trial, hanged on December 2, 1859. This book provides an account of the trial. Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBWJ; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674035171
ISBN
9780674035171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.16

Hardback. From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or 'homegoing' ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. This title offers a history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JHBZ; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674036215
ISBN
9780674036215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Paperback. One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember. Who are they, and what America do they know? This book provides an account of the lives, dreams, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants. Num Pages: 440 pages, 14 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSP1; JNA; JNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674045804
ISBN
9780674045804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.79

Paperback. Tells the story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This title delves into the intricacies of his sermons, speeches, storytelling, exhortations, jokes, jeremiads, taunts, repartee, eulogies, confessions, lamentation, and gallows humor. It explores his performances. Num Pages: 408 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; CFG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046986
ISBN
9780674046986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.87

Paperback. Will the United States have an educational caste system in 2030? Drawing on both demographic data and case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation's largest and most rapidly growing minority group. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 line illustrations, 39 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JNFR; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047051
ISBN
9780674047051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.85

Hardback. The American fixation with marriage owes much of its intensity to a small group of reformers who introduced Americans to marriage counseling in the 1930s. This book tells the American story of a culture gripped with the hope that, with enough effort and the right guidance, more perfect marital unions are within our reach. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRLM5; JFSJ; JHBK; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047969
ISBN
9780674047969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Hardback. Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, this title shows how and why the 'African native' had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar figure in the German landscape, selling everything from soap to shirts to coffee. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 462 pages, 29 color illustrations, 106 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; AKL; HBTB; JFDV; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050068
ISBN
9780674050068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.10
€ 65.85

Hardback. The noted cultural critic Gerald Early explores the intersection of race and sports, and our deeper, often contradictory attitudes toward the athletes we glorify. What desires and anxieties are encoded in our worship of (or disdain for) high-performance athletes? What other, invisible contests unfold when we watch a sporting event? Series: Alain Locke Lecture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 124 x 28. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050983
ISBN
9780674050983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.16

Hardback. The phrase 'Harlem in the 1920s' evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. This title reveals a different dimension of African American culture that made not only Harlem but New York City itself the vibrant and energizing metropolis it was. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; JFC; JFSL3; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition (US) First Printing
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051072
ISBN
9780674051072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Hardback. Examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053342
ISBN
9780674053342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.19

Paperback. Latin America's widespread poverty and multi-dimensioned inequalities have long perplexed and provoked observers. This title brings together some of the most important results of this work to measure and explain changes in Latin American living standards as far back as the colonial era. Editor(s): Salvatore, Ricardo; Coatsworth, John H.; Challu, Amilcar E. Series: Series on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFSC; KCB; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055858
ISBN
9780674055858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056053
ISBN
9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Hardback. Traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This title explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056107
ISBN
9780674056107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

Paperback. There is no society without right and wrong. There is no society without sin. But every culture has its own favorite list of trespasses. Perhaps the most influential of these was drawn up by the Church in late antiquity: the Seven Deadly Sins. This title guides the reader through Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman thoughts on sin. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRLM; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057326
ISBN
9780674057326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.58

Paperback. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, this title reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students' success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSC; JNM; JNP; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060166
ISBN
9780674060166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.78

Paperback. A study of urban social policy that combines field research and historical narrative in lucid and engaging prose. It compares two cities - Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina - in order to examine the consequences of the nation's ongoing educational inequities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JNF; JNL; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060265
ISBN
9780674060265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.70

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