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Hardback. Authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4halftones, 6line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226390017
ISBN
9780226390017
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.87
€ 59.21

Paperback. Authenticity is considered the best way to distinguish the real from the phony, the genuine from the fake. The author proposes a new model for thinking about these issues - racial sincerity. This book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that directly and indirectly address how race is negotiated in today's world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4halftones, 6line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFFJ; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226390024
ISBN
9780226390024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. This book advances the idea that American education suffers from three underlying legal defects: the rejection of parental rights, domination by state laws that undermine parental rights, and the devastating effects of an unconstitutional expansion of federal power. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761808558
ISBN
9780761808558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271022864
ISBN
9780271022864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 35.50

Paperback. An ethnographic study of country music, and the bars, life, and everyday speech of its rural fans. Num Pages: 384 pages, 40 b&w photos, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333487
ISBN
9780822333487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with particular reference to the New England town meeting which provides a model of such a pure form of democracy. Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226077970
ISBN
9780226077970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFHC; JPHC; JPHV; JPWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 29. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199753956
ISBN
9780199753956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.52

paperback. A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as 'English' to fight against the forces of globalization. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFC; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781846270420
ISBN
9781846270420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Real Folks examines the construction of the folk in Depression-era U.S. politics and culture, as well as the hybrid forms of documentary and satire that critiqued the populist fixation on folk authenticity. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822349440
ISBN
9780822349440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a racial consciousness. This title examines the processes of racial identification and their implications by looking at the case of American Indians. Num Pages: 250 pages, 7 line illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520229778
ISBN
9780520229778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.25

Hardcover. A concise and valuable overview of what modern developmental psychologists have learned about children's developing powers of perception and capacity for reasoning, but also suggests new ways of studying children that better capture the truth about their young minds. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018839
ISBN
9780674018839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474811
ISBN
9780801474811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's beloved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's social history. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493024902
ISBN
9781493024902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199733590
ISBN
9780199733590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.03

Paperback. Harry Morgan discusses how we know things: the physiological aspects of human information processing. He integrates developments in cognitive science with accepted educational thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRL; JNC; MJN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578860630
ISBN
9781578860630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.52

Paperback. Looks at life in Cuba, including descriptions of its people and places. This book illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 184 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Edition
CA res. please inc. 7.25% tax
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842028370
ISBN
9780842028370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476727967
ISBN
9781476727967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.91

Paperback. .
Publisher
Career Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601631572
ISBN
9781601631572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.62

Paperback. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption. Num Pages: 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFCV; JHMC; KCT; WBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361572
ISBN
9780822361572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardback. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption. Num Pages: 305 pages, 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFCV; JHMC; KCT; WBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 10. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361381
ISBN
9780822361381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

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