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Paperback. A comprehensive account of the presence of alternative medicine in American society. Beginning with the basic premises of alternative medicine, it examines the clinical, economic, and political realities of the broad range of alternative care options and practices in the United States. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396783
- ISBN
- 9781566396783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
Paperback. Gold offers a feel for what it was like to live through the heady days of the discovery and exploitation of gold in California in the mid-1800s through firsthand accounts, short stories, and tall tales written by the people who were there. These eyewitness accounts offer an immediacy that brings the events to life. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 30.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762791507
- ISBN
- 9780762791507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.50
€ 20.99
€ 17.50
Paperback. Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807859599
- ISBN
- 9780807859599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 32 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VXQG; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764334719
- ISBN
- 9780764334719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.29
€ 18.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. What did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? This work provides a comprehensive analysis of how males, and specifically homosexual males, were represented in ares under both Spanish and Portugese control. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226757049
- ISBN
- 9780226757049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardback. From UI to EI examines the history of Canada's unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774811224
- ISBN
- 9780774811224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
hardcover. Num Pages: 366 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; BGH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761806004
- ISBN
- 9780761806004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.37
€ 135.37
Paperback. Editor(s): Overton, Rachel H. Num Pages: 71 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 71
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606921265
- ISBN
- 9781606921265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.68€ 39.78
€ 54.68
€ 39.78
Hardback. This book of essays explores the theoretical, historical, and foreign policy implications of US power and postwar order. In this unique study of a superpower, Ikenberry argues that though the American world order is now in upheaval, in the end, the US still has a powerful incentive to sponsor and operate within a liberal rules-based system. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636498
- ISBN
- 9780745636498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781517901417
- ISBN
- 9781517901417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.31
€ 88.31
Paperback. A collection that tells the stories of famous heroes and villains from the old west, from Tom Horn to the "Apache Kid". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616085421
- ISBN
- 9781616085421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.15
€ 16.99
€ 15.15
Paperback. Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346. Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. 256 pages. Editor(s): Foster, Thomas A. Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control and has been at the center of fierce political storms. This title features documents that highlight the broad diversity inherent in the history of American sexuality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK5. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257471
- ISBN
- 9780226257471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.14
€ 31.99
€ 25.14
Hardback. Spanish California - with its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionaries - provides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. This volume helps in reshaping our understanding of how people in the northernmost Spanish Borderlands viewed themselves and remade their worlds. Editor(s): Hackel, Steven W. Series: Western Histories. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520289048
- ISBN
- 9780520289048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.41€ 65.36
€ 84.41
€ 65.36
Hardcover. Editor(s): Miller, Kurt C. Num Pages: 246 pages, tables, graphs, diagrams. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; JW; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 259 x 20. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616689421
- ISBN
- 9781616689421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.13€ 151.27
€ 221.13
€ 151.27
Paperback. Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; 1QDB; CFB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691118284
- ISBN
- 9780691118284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Identifies an overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. This title analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229857
- ISBN
- 9780823229857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
Hardcover. For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 halftones, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APFA; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896931
- ISBN
- 9780859896931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.04
€ 144.04
Paperback. This is a collection essays written by F.H. Cardoso during his tenure as President of Brazil. They document the transformation of Cardoso's economic and political approach and span Cardoso's early theoretical work through his pragmatic agenda for Brazil in a rapidly changing world economy. Editor(s): Font, Mauricio A. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFFS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742508934
- ISBN
- 9780742508934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 95.94
€ 95.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781492609865
- ISBN
- 9781492609865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.94
€ 18.99
€ 18.94
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
€ 19.99€ 17.13
€ 19.99
€ 17.13
Paperback. How Jewishness and feminism converged in the life histories of twentieth-century activists Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFFK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252076770
- ISBN
- 9780252076770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.04
€ 23.99
€ 22.04
Paperback. In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. This title is about the eighteen-year quest for John Thompson's freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 689.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620876084
- ISBN
- 9781620876084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.06
€ 18.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 131 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604565553
- ISBN
- 9781604565553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.62€ 43.77
€ 60.62
€ 43.77
Paperback. This diverse collection of material about the history of film exhibition in the United States documents and enlivens the history of moviegoing, film exhibition practices, business policies, and programming strategies. It is a comprehensive study of the cultural history of American film. Editor(s): Waller, Gregory A. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631225928
- ISBN
- 9780631225928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.89
€ 57.89