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Paperback. Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. The author, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 halftones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBT; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691021041
- ISBN
- 9780691021041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.78
€ 43.99
€ 30.78
Hardback. Examines the Jewish acquisition of civic equality from the perspective of the 'paradigm of liberal inclusiveness' as formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville and Louis Hartz. This book argues that the liberal paradigm worked for American Jews but that France's illiberal impulses hindered its Jewish population in acquiring full civic rights. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691096490
- ISBN
- 9780691096490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.58€ 79.41
€ 104.58
€ 79.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Natural Heritage Books Canada
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554883875
- ISBN
- 9781554883875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.91
€ 26.99
€ 22.91
Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGS; WSD; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Triumph Books United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600789748
- ISBN
- 9781600789748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.48
€ 29.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. In this text, Fletcher maintains that there is much greater unity among diverse systems of criminal justice than commonly realized, and that any adequate system of criminal law necessarily must address a set of universal, basic issues. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB; LBHG; LNF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195121711
- ISBN
- 9780195121711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Centennial Edition, with a New Foreword and Append
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477072
- ISBN
- 9780801477072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.88
€ 23.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780823242559
- ISBN
- 9780823242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Kealy, Patrick. Num Pages: 215 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WNWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811727167
- ISBN
- 9780811727167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
Hardcover. Num Pages: 894 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 185 x 59. Weight in Grams: 2126.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 894
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604564167
- ISBN
- 9781604564167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 415.91€ 288.39
€ 415.91
€ 288.39
Paperback. Series: History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226073255
- ISBN
- 9780226073255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.41
€ 40.99
€ 31.41
paperback. Features a prologue that considers the meaning of the tragedy for a post-Waco, post-9/11 world. This book recalls the American religious commitment to redemptive sacrifice, which for Jim Jones meant saving his followers from the evils of capitalist society. Series: Religion in North America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780253216328
- ISBN
- 9780253216328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.03
€ 23.99
€ 22.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865972636
- ISBN
- 9780865972636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Although a history of protest politics has done so much to define western Canada and to place it outside the Canadian mainstream, the aspirations and frustrations that animated western discontent over the years have been replaced by a new reality: the West is in. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442606456
- ISBN
- 9781442606456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.00
€ 36.99
€ 33.00
Hardback. Born in London in 1775 to a Maryland merchant and his English wife, Louisa recalls her childhood and education in England and France and her courtship with John Quincy. Her diaries reveal a reluctant but increasingly canny political wife. Her husband emerges in a fullness seldom seen--ambitious and exacting, yet passionate, generous, and gallant. Editor(s): Graham, Judith S.; Luey, Beth; Hogan, Margaret A.; Taylor, C. James. Series: Adams Papers. Num Pages: 960 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGHA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 960
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058682
- ISBN
- 9780674058682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.64€ 170.88
€ 193.64
€ 170.88
paperback. Explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 photographs, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822318989
- ISBN
- 9780822318989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Hardback. A rare insider's look at Stanford's experience of dramatic political unrest during the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which time the author served as the university's vice president, provost, and then president. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBTB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760799
- ISBN
- 9780804760799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.18
€ 72.18
Hardcover. This work weaves the stories of individual Alabamians and Alabama-related military units into a brief narrative history of World War II. Interviews with veterans of the war-front and home-front supplement research from archives, newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs and secondary sources. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567. Clean copy in good dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0236714
- ISBN
- 9780817307370
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? This title explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to the gangsta culture. It traces the legacy of badness in Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes' detective fiction. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226550350
- ISBN
- 9780226550350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.07€ 78.49
€ 95.07
€ 78.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; WSBT; WSBX; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Triumph Books United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600788079
- ISBN
- 9781600788079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.98
€ 18.99
€ 17.98
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels
Federal Writers Project Of The Works Progress...
Paperback. A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A's history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations - and the mystique - for which the City of Angels is still known. Num Pages: 504 pages, 111 b/w photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJG; WQH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 36. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520268838
- ISBN
- 9780520268838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.93
€ 33.99
€ 24.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 71 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764343643
- ISBN
- 9780764343643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.86
€ 19.00
€ 15.86
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRAX; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875651842
- ISBN
- 9780875651842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.50
€ 32.99
€ 29.50
Paperback. Editor(s): Voigt, Margaret R. Num Pages: 94 pages, b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616689513
- ISBN
- 9781616689513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.67€ 52.00
€ 73.67
€ 52.00
Paperback. This work presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology. It illuminates contradictions in Emerson's political outlook, and the conjunctions of liberal and authoritarian ideology they produced. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HPC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780226577005
- ISBN
- 9780226577005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.29
€ 43.99
€ 33.29