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Paperback. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; BGA; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988160
- ISBN
- 9780295988160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.66
€ 19.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. De-stigmatization of sex work encourages efforts toward legal changes to create safe communities for all. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772120059
- ISBN
- 9781772120059
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.98
€ 40.99
€ 28.98
Paperback. Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US - Mexico border. This book explores the everyday reality of the drug trade by living alongside its low-level workers: those living at the edges of the violence generated by the militarization of "the war on drugs." Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JHMC; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276789
- ISBN
- 9780520276789
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.51
€ 33.99
€ 24.51
Paperback. In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 halftones. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFS; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159652
- ISBN
- 9780691159652
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Hardback. Num Pages: 329 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 329
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- SKU
- KEX0201953
- ISBN
- 9780231064804
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMC; KNAC; MJT; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477311394
- ISBN
- 9781477311394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women's lives and their economic and social status. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JHMC; KNAC; MJT; PSXM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 661. Weight in Grams: 587.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781477311387
- ISBN
- 9781477311387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.11
€ 97.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226276526
- ISBN
- 9780226276526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.90
€ 41.99
€ 31.90
Paperback. The field of science and technology studies has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power. This book offers a collection of essays by leading scholars, showing how scientific knowledge embeds, and is embedded, in social identities, institutions, representations and discourses. Editor(s): Jasanoff, Sheila. Series: International Library of Sociology. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415403290
- ISBN
- 9780415403290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3488 x 12. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719599
- ISBN
- 9780804719599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.11
€ 29.99
€ 29.11
Hardback. Sheila Kitzinger, passionate campaigner for women's and babies' rights, childbirth educator and author, describes the experiences that have shaped her since childhood and the enormous changes that have taken place over the last 50 years on the subject of birth. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; JHM; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 39. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Publisher
- Pinter & Martin Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780661704
- ISBN
- 9781780661704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.30
€ 26.99
€ 19.30
paperback. The politics of parental leave policies addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Kamerman, Sheila B.; Moss, Peter. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JHBL; KCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847429032
- ISBN
- 9781847429032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 37.91
€ 40.99
€ 37.91
Hardcover. The politics of parental leave policies addresses how and why, and by whom, particular policies are created and subsequently developed in particular countries. It examines the factors that bring about variations in leave policy, covering fifteen countries in Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Kamerman, Sheila B.; Moss, Peter. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847420671
- ISBN
- 9781847420671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.99
€ 95.99
Paperback. How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSL; JHM; JMH; JPHC; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691001913
- ISBN
- 9780691001913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.77€ 41.64
€ 52.77
€ 41.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Stryker, Sheldon; Owens, Timothy J.; White, Robert W. Series: Social movements, protest & contention. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634088
- ISBN
- 9780816634088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.19
€ 30.19
Paperback. Offers a study of the Progressive movement, its reformers, their ideology, and the social circumstances they tried to change. This book contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072697
- ISBN
- 9780252072697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.12
€ 29.99
€ 29.12
Paperback. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536112
- ISBN
- 9781557536112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.29
€ 59.29
hardcover. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL; JHBL; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752152
- ISBN
- 9780804752152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.56
€ 75.56
Paperback. "A good story and first-rate social science."-New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLC; JFSL9; JHM; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 209 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393321005
- ISBN
- 9780393321005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.80
€ 18.99
€ 17.80
Hardcover. Discusses the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. This book examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American world view. Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publication. Num Pages: 264 pages, 149 colour & 32 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; JFSL9; JHMC; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1461.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820328157
- ISBN
- 9780820328157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 50.02
€ 51.99
€ 50.02