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Paperback. The author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGR; JFSL3; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2 Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803216754
ISBN
9780803216754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.72

Paperback. Describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization. Num Pages: 269 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803293335
ISBN
9780803293335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.71

Paperback. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of European Union migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 347.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761079
ISBN
9780804761079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812220469
ISBN
9780812220469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814731208
ISBN
9780814731208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Kvideland, Reimund; Sehmsdorf, Henning K. Series: Nordic S. Num Pages: 451 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
451
Condition
New
Edition
First edition
SKU
V9780816619672
ISBN
9780816619672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816625550
ISBN
9780816625550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line art illustration. BIC Classification: JFFK; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816648054
ISBN
9780816648054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this "travelling theory," and shows how various discourses of displacement link, rather than separate, modernism and postmodernism. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822318217
ISBN
9780822318217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses. Editor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320401
ISBN
9780822320401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.67

Paperback. Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. 328 pages, 57 b&w photographs, 3 figures. Focuses on the struggles of white mothers parenting African-descent children in Britain, analyzing the complex, racialized status of these women and their commitments to antiracism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSL; JHBK. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 17. Weight: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348764
ISBN
9780822348764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.33

Paperback. A tribute to the enduring power of the printed word. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Quercus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782069423
ISBN
9781782069423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardcover. This work allows the user to make a record of a baby's first year landmarks, such as first smile, first crawl and first steps with checklists of physical and behavioural development. Illustrator(s): Greenaway, Kate. Editor(s): Rigge, Simon. Num Pages: 40 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; VFXB; WZS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 174 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sheldrake Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873329306
ISBN
9781873329306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Expelled from the Communist Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, the author has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order. Editor(s): Liu, Binyan; Link, Perry. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253218612
ISBN
9780253218612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.30

Paperback. This compelling analysis of Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concepts of fact and evidence argues for the inclusion of Aboriginal oral histories in Canadian courts, and pushes for a reconsideration of the Crown's approach to oral history. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774820714
ISBN
9780774820714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.09

Paperback. An argument against reductive accounts of the nineteenth-century sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis s work as the product of her identity as an African American and Native American woman. Num Pages: 344 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822342663
ISBN
9780822342663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.86

Hardback. A fascinating cornucopia of monsters and fabulous creatures from all corners of the world. Num Pages: 384 pages, 200 b and w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF; VXQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 34. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Edition
UK ed.
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857383372
ISBN
9780857383372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.67

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742510951
ISBN
9780742510951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 73, 11 tables, 62 charts. BIC Classification: JFCV; KFFM1; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
5th Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452307
ISBN
9780801452307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFE2; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487187
ISBN
9780801487187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.48

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