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Society & social sciences
Paperback. From racial disturbances in Miami has emerged the image that Blacks, Hispanics and Anglos are pitted against one another for resources. This text explores the construction of ethnic identities and ethnic group conflict, including interviews with politicians, journalists and business people. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBTB; JFF; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917054
- ISBN
- 9780813917054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.37
€ 38.37
Hardcover. This text is a look at how the social welfare system in the United States developed, and with what results. It critically assesses how social workers invent themselves as they simultaneously invent their field of knowledge, and in so doing, upsets conventional understandings of social work. Series: Knowledge: Disciplinarity & Beyond S. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813917139
- ISBN
- 9780813917139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Hardcover. This volume covers the spring of 1777, a period when George Washington was obliged to spend much of his time pleading with the state authorities to fill their recruiting quotas and with officers to bring in the men whom they had enlisted. He was further hampered by a high desertion rate. Series: Revolutionary War Series. Num Pages: 720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918259
- ISBN
- 9780813918259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.69
€ 133.69
Hardcover. This text opens at the point when Washington was immersed in creating a military force to deal with the threat of war with France. Despite this he found time to build houses on Capitol Hill, seek the funds to put his financial affairs in order, and lament the divided state of American politics. Series: Retirement Series. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918389
- ISBN
- 9780813918389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.59
€ 131.59
Hardcover. This text begins with the relaxation of tension between France and the US, allowing Washington to redirect his attention to his personal affairs. He looked to the future of Mount Vernon and supervised the compilation of a list of Mount Vernon slaves, while making plans for their eventual freedom Series: Retirement Series. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918556
- ISBN
- 9780813918556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.49
€ 132.49
Hardcover. A study of the conflicting attitudes of 18th-century French subjects toward royal authority. It examines cases of seditious speech in police files, demonstrating how the premodern virtue of loyalty gave way to new ideas and vocabularies about the relationship between individuals and government. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919270
- ISBN
- 9780813919270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.52
€ 79.52
Paperback. This work proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that although it may variously be associated wtih the Renaissance, the discovery of the New World and other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaces. Series: Richard Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919669
- ISBN
- 9780813919669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.60
€ 35.60
Paperback. Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally specific notion of an androgynous imagination. This text explores the process by which this happened. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919805
- ISBN
- 9780813919805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.43
€ 35.43
Hardcover. A vision of our shared global future, taken from the speeches and exchanges of eight visionary recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Dalai Lamai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others discussed issues ranging from international relations to areas traditionally excluded from such discourse. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JFFE; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919874
- ISBN
- 9780813919874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.01
€ 59.01
Hardcover. Mayes, a gay activist and former priest, recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HRCC91; HRCX6; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920047
- ISBN
- 9780813920047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.81
€ 52.81
Hardcover. This collection of essays by leading scholars of constitutional law looks at a critical component of constitutional democracy - judicial independence, from an international comparative perspective. It concludes by comparing many regimes from across the world. Editor(s): Russell, Peter H.; O'Brien, David M. Series: Constitutionalism and Democracy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV; LAB; LAM; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920153
- ISBN
- 9780813920153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.58
€ 116.58
Paperback. In this social history of the cinema during the silent-film era, Kathryn H. Fuller charts the gradual homogenization of a diverse American movie audience as itinerant shows gave way first to nickelodeon theatres and then to more luxurious picture palaces. Num Pages: 272 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBT; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920825
- ISBN
- 9780813920825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.18
€ 38.18
Paperback. Focusing on "Amos 'n' Andy", a nightly American radio comedy in the 1930s, this text unveils a tale of America's shifting colour line, in which two professional directors of blackface minstrel shows produced a series so complex that it won admirers ranging from ultra-racists to racial egalitarians. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APW; HBJK; HBLW; JFD; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 10th ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813920924
- ISBN
- 9780813920924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.04
€ 39.04
Paperback. This volume interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution and science and romance, to show how we create the past and understand the present. Num Pages: 60 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Number of pages
- 60
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921297
- ISBN
- 9780813921297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Hardcover. Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921679
- ISBN
- 9780813921679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.31
€ 56.31
Hardcover. British social critics in the Romantic tradition stigmatized industry as a threat to aesthetic "culture". Bizup argues that early Victorian advocates of industry sought to resist the power inherent in this opposition by portraying automatic manufacture itself as a cultural force or agent. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922461
- ISBN
- 9780813922461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. Here, Scott Herring studies work on American National Parks from a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922577
- ISBN
- 9780813922577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.36
€ 34.36
Hardcover. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was one of the most important 19th century British writers and activists. She worked to improve conditions for delinquent girls and for the sick poor, promoted university degrees for women and roused support for the Union during the American Civil War. This is her biography. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922713
- ISBN
- 9780813922713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.36
€ 79.36
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of Am...
Edited By Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantma...
Hardcover. Across the Continent is an examination of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Essays look at the global politics that provided the context for the expedition and at the interest in science that grew from it and justified its undertaking. It considers the legacies of it on Native Americans and the control of the expansion of the American Empire. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; JPSL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press Charlottesville
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923130
- ISBN
- 9780813923130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.38
€ 57.38
Paperback. This book offers a reinterpretation of Nietzsche's ideas on sex, gender, and sexuality. Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman argues that a closer reading of his texts, letters and notes shows that he was deliberately dismantling dualistic thinking in general. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923208
- ISBN
- 9780813923208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.01
€ 33.01