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Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 33. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804711234
- ISBN
- 9780804711234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.79
€ 148.79
Paperback. This text offers an appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production. It engages the debate concerning his role in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative positions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847697519
- ISBN
- 9780847697519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.07
€ 51.07
paperback. Illustrator(s): Jacques, Francis Lee. Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 1KBCO; HBJK; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816609192
- ISBN
- 9780816609192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. We are not just social animals, but social citizens whose political choices are significantly shaped by peer influence. Drawing upon data from settings as diverse as South Los Angeles and Chicago's wealthy North Shore, the author shows that social networks do not merely inform citizens' behavior, they can - and do - have the power to change it. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 line drawings, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 192 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226922829
- ISBN
- 9780226922829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.79
€ 35.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. The first comprehensive assessment of citizen engagement in Canada, this volume raises challenging questions, not just about the interests and capabilities of Canadians as democratic citizens, but also about the performance of our democratic institutions. Series: Canadian Democratic Audit. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774809191
- ISBN
- 9780774809191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.88
€ 101.88
Paperback. In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was emerging as the preeminent forum for truly professional baseball. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJT. Dimension: 215 x 140. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781630760069
- ISBN
- 9781630760069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.85
€ 18.99
€ 16.85
The Color of Wealth. The Story Behind the U.S Racial Wealth Divide.
Lui, Meizhu; Robles, Barbara; Leondar-Wright,...
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 190 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595580047
- ISBN
- 9781595580047
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.85
€ 25.99
€ 23.85
Hardback. The first and only comprehensive narrative account of the secret Cuban missile crisis ExComm meetings, by the first historian to hear the tapes of every secretly recorded discussion. Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748469
- ISBN
- 9780804748469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 41.12
€ 47.99
€ 41.12
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 8408. Weight in Grams: 2586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781477311899
- ISBN
- 9781477311899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JPRB; KCC; KNBL; KNBW; THRD; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- RAND United States
- Number of pages
- 85
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780833028419
- ISBN
- 9780833028419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.05
€ 17.05
Hardcover. Editor(s): Santiago, Nicole L. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634820066
- ISBN
- 9781634820066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.21€ 145.21
€ 194.21
€ 145.21
Paperback. An account of congressional responses to foreign policy over the last 30 years. Hinckley argues that congressional assertiveness is as much a myth as the struggle between the elected branches, and proposes reforms that might result in real congressional participation. Series: Twentieth Century Fund Books. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHC; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226341446
- ISBN
- 9780226341446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.79
€ 35.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. Tells the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. This book discusses film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history. It presents a trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBJK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition, 1 ed.
- SKU
- V9780520282636
- ISBN
- 9780520282636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.74€ 72.48
€ 94.74
€ 72.48
Hardback. On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 color illus. 136 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; AJCR; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 971.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133256
- ISBN
- 9780691133256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.69€ 53.63
€ 68.69
€ 53.63
Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360278
- ISBN
- 9780822360278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardcover. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, "Empire of Liberty" offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1218.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195039146
- ISBN
- 9780195039146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 44.79
€ 47.99
€ 44.79
Paperback. Shows what is happening in US economics PhD programs. By examining these programs, this book offers a view of economics. It also shows how much - and in what ways - the field has changed over the years. It includes interviews with students that describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138510
- ISBN
- 9780691138510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.41
€ 37.99
€ 27.41
From Vietnam to the Great Society to the Civil Rights reforms, the Johnson presidency saw a barrage of controversial but important measures that generate almost as much dispute today as they did when they were enacted. This collection offers an overview of Lyndon B. Editor(s): Lerner, Mitchell B. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 177 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1086.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444333893
- ISBN
- 9781444333893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 257.05
€ 257.05
Paperback. One of the most momentous contests in American history between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013 inauguration. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 pp b&w insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451646085
- ISBN
- 9781451646085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.39
€ 18.99
€ 17.39
Paperback. Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442614505
- ISBN
- 9781442614505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardback. Rebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the 1960s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFSP; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826877
- ISBN
- 9780774826877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.94
€ 106.94
Hardback. Num Pages: 446 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 785.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810862005
- ISBN
- 9780810862005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.17
€ 241.17
Paperback. Series: American Traveler. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour map. BIC Classification: 1KB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 99 x 4. Weight in Grams: 72.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- American Traveler Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558381209
- ISBN
- 9781558381209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.46
€ 10.99
€ 9.46
Paperback. A history of the meaning of property, this text aims to uncover in American legal writing a competing vision of property which has existed alongside the traditional conception. It argues that property has also been understood as propriety, a method for creating and maintaining an organized society. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; KFFR; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226013541
- ISBN
- 9780226013541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.13
€ 52.99
€ 41.13