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Paperback. Explores the literature focused schooling systems put in place by American colonizers in the Philippines during the nineteenth Century Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; DSB; HBJF; HBLL; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814794777
- ISBN
- 9780814794777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813564807
- ISBN
- 9780813564807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.45
€ 159.45
Paperback. Series: Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JPA; JPHC; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847685677
- ISBN
- 9780847685677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.05
€ 71.05
Hardcover. A highly anticipated work by one of the preeminent political theorists of the twentieth century, Wilson Carey McWilliams. Presents his most mature and most developed writings--the distillation of a distinguished career of thinking about the American experiment. Editor(s): Deneen, Patrick J.; McWilliams, Susan J. Series: American Political Thought. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700617852
- ISBN
- 9780700617852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.61
€ 74.61
Paperback. In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. Num Pages: 200 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFC; JFD; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732183
- ISBN
- 9780226732183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.87
€ 35.99
€ 28.87
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; JFSG; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639642
- ISBN
- 9780691639642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.61
€ 173.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; APF; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613745755
- ISBN
- 9781613745755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.36
€ 19.99
€ 19.36
Paperback. Uses examples from history to demonstrate the genesis of political and religious "whirlwinds." This title explores contemporary case studies, such as conflicts between Mormons and Evangelicals in the United States, liberation theology in Latin America, Islam and the state in Uzbekistan, and radical Christian reconstructionism. Series: Religion and Politics Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589011625
- ISBN
- 9781589011625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.35
€ 71.35
Paperback. An Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a vestige of a bygone era and showing how they reinterpret tradition as modernity encroaches on their distinct way of life. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 46, 4 maps, 39 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; JFSR; JFSS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893995
- ISBN
- 9780801893995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.04
€ 40.99
€ 34.04
Paperback. Despite deepening poverty and environmental degradation throughout rural Latin America, Mayan peasant farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, are creating an environmental and economic success by growing organic coffee. This book provides an insight into how this coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and marketed to consumers in the North. Series: Ohio RIS Latin America Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 1KL; KNAC; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896802476
- ISBN
- 9780896802476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. In this book, a leading historian takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a range of primary documents Hans Trefousse gives the voices of Lincoln's own time. Politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, give a chorus of American opinion. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 397.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224685
- ISBN
- 9780823224685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.89
€ 93.89
Hardback. Editor(s): Groban, Charles; Kulicki, John. Num Pages: 126 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624177576
- ISBN
- 9781624177576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.61€ 136.23
€ 199.61
€ 136.23
Paperback. A reconstruction of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Farber tells the story of the protests from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. Num Pages: 334 pages, 28ill.1M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JPHV; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226238012
- ISBN
- 9780226238012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.05
€ 25.99
€ 21.05
paperback. Offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. This book provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983028
- ISBN
- 9780295983028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
€ 29.75
Hardback. Begins on November 9, 1918, the eve of the Armistice between the Allied and Associated Powers and the principal Central Powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary. This book ends on January 11, 1919, before the first plenary session of the Paris Peace Conference. It also covers the interval when Wilson is preoccupied with preparations for the conference. Editor(s): Link, Arthur S. Series: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 785
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691047317
- ISBN
- 9780691047317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.73€ 125.73
€ 167.73
€ 125.73
Paperback. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self-discipline for the common good. This title demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the 'normal' American. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 photo, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSK; JHMP; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339489
- ISBN
- 9780822339489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Hardback. The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia Editor(s): White, William B. Series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Num Pages: 491 pages, 86 black & white illustrations, 412 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 204 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1232.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 491
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319143903
- ISBN
- 9783319143903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.67
€ 199.67
SeemanKing Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty by Daniel R. MandellThe Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War by Williamjames Hull HofferBloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations by Tim Lehman Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421403113
- ISBN
- 9781421403113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.54
€ 69.54
Demonstrating how an international design movement found its way into ordinary places, this study will appeal to architectural historians, as well as regional residents interested in developing a greater appreciation of Art Deco architecture in the mid-Atlantic region. Num Pages: 256 pages, 68, 68 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; 1KBBFM; ACXD3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1048.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411620
- ISBN
- 9781421411620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
paperback. Tracing the history of New York transit workers from the Depression to the 1966 transit strike, this work shows how, through collective action, the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system brought about a revolution in their daily lives. It is for those interested in New York City's subways, politics, history, and labor. Series: Labor in Crisis. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1 figure, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KNG; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Temple University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781566399227
- ISBN
- 9781566399227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.34
€ 37.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Chomsky, Butler, Finkelstein and other leading commentators discuss state terrorism. Editor(s): Bailes, Jon; Aksan, Cihan. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JPVR; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745332413
- ISBN
- 9780745332413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.34
€ 35.99
€ 24.34
hardcover. This 31st annual volume was produced with co-operation of 264 participating periodicals from Canada, the US and the Caribbean. Nearly 7000 entries for individual poets and translators are included, with nearly 21,000 for individual poems. A separate index provides access by title or first line. Series: Index of American Periodical Verse. Num Pages: 704 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; GBCS; GBCY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 42. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810848450
- ISBN
- 9780810848450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 255.26
€ 255.26
Hardback. Editor(s): Thompson, Gloria. Num Pages: 91 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSW1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 91
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634836241
- ISBN
- 9781634836241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.70€ 145.73
€ 193.70
€ 145.73
Paperback. Tells the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JFSS; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 447 x 33. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- HarperOne
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061655944
- ISBN
- 9780061655944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.31
€ 18.99
€ 16.31