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Paperback. A study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, it examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBTB; JPS; WSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674725706
ISBN
9780674725706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.77

Paperback. BIC Classification: BT; DC; HR; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Thin Man Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993014123
ISBN
9780993014123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

Hardback. After the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the victims' identity. They would attempt to return to families every human body part larger than a thumbnail. As Jay D. Aronson shows, delivering on that promise proved to be a monumentally difficult task. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674971493
ISBN
9780674971493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.11

Hardback. Gender quotas are a growing worldwide phenomenon, yet their variable implementation remains under-researched. Using the prominent case study of France this book approaches quotas from the perspective of the key actors responsible for them -- political parties. Series: French Politics, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSJ1; JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2010th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230242531
ISBN
9780230242531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.15

Hardcover. Editor(s): Scott, J. Series: Makers of America S. Num Pages: 157 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. Clean copy with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Facts On File Inc
Number of pages
157
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KST0018333
ISBN
9780816033973
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; HBJF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153195
ISBN
9780231153195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.94

Paperback. Explains how to select a first-rate foreign policy team, how to avoid the pitfalls that plagued earlier presidents, how to ensure that decisions, once carefully made, are successfully implemented, and how to employ the full range of tools available to a president to persuade other countries to support US objectives. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 203 x 47. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Harper Perennial United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Updated ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061351815
ISBN
9780061351815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.73

Hardcover. Presents an account of a potential flashpoint between the Muslim world and the West following the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear programme that provoked a major crisis in its relations with the US and other Western powers. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850658092
ISBN
9781850658092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.60

Paperback. For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's superpowers by their nuclear standoff. Taking an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, this book explains what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674064270
ISBN
9780674064270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.72

Paperback. Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, the author steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. Alleging that we are all cultural agents, she takes herself to task and creates Pre-Texts, an international arts-literacy project that translates high literary theory through popular creative practices. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 photographs, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822355861
ISBN
9780822355861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Is political Islam the heir of radical Arab nationalism? If political Islam succeeds, will it face the same challenges faced by radical Arab nationalism? Will it be able to implement modernity? This book assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. Translator(s): Roberts, Anthony. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626164505
ISBN
9781626164505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.89

Paperback. Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize. A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living". Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised, Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745680972
ISBN
9780745680972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.00

Paperback. 250pp. Index. Dust jacket is slightly stained and worn on the edges. Keywords: Political Thought, Politics, Political History, Political studies
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc New York
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KON0827051
ISBN
9780471085201
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 56.49
€ 4.99

Paperback. An examination of Foucault's last thought, centered on his ideas about biopolitics, governmentality, and subjectivity. This volume aims to explain why the politics and policies of neoliberalism are best understood as a "government of life" whose effects and consequences still remain to be fathomed. Editor(s): Lemm, Vanessa; Vatter, Miguel E. Series: Forms of Living (FUP). Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823255979
ISBN
9780823255979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Drawing on a plethora of sources, including decades of contact with senior Soviet figures, Raymond Garthoff offers the most authoritative assessment to date of how Soviet leaders and intelligence chiefs understood -- and misunderstood -- the United States during the Cold War. Num Pages: 160 pages, 5 tables, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBTW; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 242 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626162297
ISBN
9781626162297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.27

Paperback. This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 tables, 8 figures. BIC Classification: CFG; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd ed. 2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251656
ISBN
9780230251656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 135.88

Paperback. Presents an analytical framework to explain regulatory outcomes at the global level. This book offers a series of case studies that illustrate the challenges of a global economy in which many institutions are less transparent and are held much less accountable by the media and public officials than are domestic institutions. Editor(s): Mattli, Walter; Woods, Ngaire. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
44023rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139616
ISBN
9780691139616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Hamilton, Keith; Salmon, Patrick. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195731
ISBN
9781845195731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.32

Paperback. Questions the perametres of state crime in all its forms, from corruption and corporate crime to 'natural' disasters, torture, war crimes and genocide. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JKV; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 212 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745317847
ISBN
9780745317847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.40

Paperback. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule and that of the Empire are presented in a narrative which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions openly. Num Pages: 592 pages, 6 family trees. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192803207
ISBN
9780192803207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.49

Hardback. Despite the pervasiveness of the Internet and its importance to a wide range of state functions, we still have little understanding of its implications in the context of International Relations. Combining the Philosophy of Technology with IR theories of power, this study explores state power in the information age. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; UBW; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137550231
ISBN
9781137550231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.98

Hardcover. Discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process. The author first examines the history and nature of the process, then he looks at the role and impact of other players. Num Pages: 224 pages, numerous tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHF; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
OUP USA
Number of pages
220
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0227644
ISBN
9780195181098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253208323
ISBN
9780253208323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.26

Hardcover. Editor(s): McClay, Wilfred M.; McAllister, Ted V. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JPA; JPQB; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Encounter Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594037160
ISBN
9781594037160
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.57

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