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Hardcover. The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics Editor(s): Worden, Daniel. Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists. Num Pages: 298 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FZG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
SKU
V9781496802217
ISBN
9781496802217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 402 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780912646787
ISBN
9780912646787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.88

Paperback. "Restoring Opportunity" lays out the causes of opportunity gaps and inequity in schools. It provides educators and school leaders with actionable solutions to decrease achievement gaps between low- and high-income students. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612506340
ISBN
9781612506340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.52

Hardback. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, the author shows how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPA; JPV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143132
ISBN
9780691143132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.41
€ 51.30

Paperback. The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. This book aims to support workers in analysing and making sense of the information gathered, and increase accuracy and empathy in assessing the needs and risks for vulnerable children and young people. Series Editor(s): Daniel, Brigid. Series: Best Practice in Working with Children Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 28 figures. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843109235
ISBN
9781843109235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.06

Paperback. Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'. Illustrator(s): Boreham, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSB; HPCD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848311787
ISBN
9781848311787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.86

Paperback. This book charts the course through which people with learning disabilities have become increasingly able to direct their own lives as fully active members of their communities. Many of the personal accounts, photographs and songs included in this book will be accessible and encouraging to people with learning disabilities. Editor(s): Mitchell, Duncan; Traustadottir, Rannveig; Chapman, Rohhss; Townson, Louise; Ingham, Nigel; Ledger, Sue. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843103592
ISBN
9781843103592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 31.88

Hardback. High Literacy and Ethnic Identity describes the experiences of fifteen men and women who arrived with the first and second wave of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States and who, despite the odds, succeeded in completing the highest level of formal education-a doctorate-and are now educators in U.S. colleges and universities. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJD; CFC; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742500044
ISBN
9780742500044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.68

Paperback. This work illustrates how America was a key factor in the economic and political recovery of European democracies that had been devastated by World War II. It provides an analysis of important aspects of Western society at this time, such as politics, economics, culture and science. Num Pages: 745 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1Q; 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3; JFC; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
745
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847681983
ISBN
9780847681983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.85

Hardback. The story of one woman's devotion to her brother's battle against MS and how she transformed that devotion into one of the nations most powerful and effective health organizations. Photos. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 170 x 31. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566634144
ISBN
9781566634144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.08

Paperback. Beyond giving a view of the life and worth of cinema in France, this book contributes to our knowledge of how films are dealt with in history. It stresses the dialogue of culture and cinema. Num Pages: 384 pages, 132 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJG; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691008837
ISBN
9780691008837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.36
€ 55.68

paperback. The issue of private property and the rights it confers remains almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. This text describes the specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. Translator(s): Griffiths, Elaine. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPC; JFFS; JPVH3; KCA; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Zed Books London
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0024744
ISBN
9781842774793
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.12

hardcover. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Kali for Women India
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9788189013608
ISBN
9788189013608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. Analyses representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s, and in early 1990s during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. This book proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVW; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339663
ISBN
9780822339663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.32

Hardcover. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 187 x 22. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608767038
ISBN
9781608767038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 264.02
€ 179.69

Paperback. More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands - along with her close friend Susan B Anthony - as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. This title reintroduces, contextualizes, and critiques Stanton's numerous contributions to modern thought. Editor(s): DuBois, Ellen Carol; Smith, Richard Candida. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814719824
ISBN
9780814719824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 3JJPK; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 960.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Between the Lines
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897071519
ISBN
9781897071519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
South Africa
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431407378
ISBN
9781431407378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.58

Hardback. Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 BC, is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. This title presents and discusses the building projects known to have been initiated by Herod. Num Pages: 368 pages, 48 b/w photographs, 1 drawing, 15 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; AM; HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520209343
ISBN
9780520209343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.25
€ 63.75

Paperback. Using a variety of sources - official papers, travel documents, diaries and newspapers - Duane Meyer presents a complete reconstruction of the settlement of Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migaration, their life in America and their curious allegiance to George III. Num Pages: 216 pages, maps, diagrams. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
Reprint Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807841990
ISBN
9780807841990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.02

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