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paperback. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCS; JFFN; JFSL4; JFSP2; LNDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361633
- ISBN
- 9780822361633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Editor(s): Bickford, Susan. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801483776
- ISBN
- 9780801483776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.47
€ 40.99
€ 36.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 46 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764331756
- ISBN
- 9780764331756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.20
€ 18.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Written by the author, a Brule Lakota woman who experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas, this book presents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Num Pages: 199 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803261648
- ISBN
- 9780803261648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.46
€ 18.99
€ 18.46
board_book.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Good Night Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 20
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602190061
- ISBN
- 9781602190061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.44
€ 11.44
Hardback. Gore Vidal has been entertaining - and occasionally outraging - the American public for 50 years. This study examines Vidal's recent and early novels, and considers the recurring theme of the decline of the United States. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313295799
- ISBN
- 9780313295799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813574363
- ISBN
- 9780813574363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.91
€ 69.91
hardcover. This text integrates knowledge on DMST from the scholarly literature with interviews with those working directly in the field. Interviews with survivors, social workers, psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and others help educate the reader as to why and how this crime occurs, how to fight it, and how to help survivors recover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE2; JFMX; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199300600
- ISBN
- 9780199300600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.05
€ 100.05
Paperback. Highlights the gendered quality of the immigration process in the US, drawing on Census data and interviews Num Pages: 319 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814767399
- ISBN
- 9780814767399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. Provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JFFA; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520200234
- ISBN
- 9780520200234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.79
€ 35.99
€ 26.79
Paperback. Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know surprisingly little about them. Scientists speculate they can live for 60 years and grow to a massive 20 feet long. This title deals with great white sharks and the power they have over us. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; BTH; WNCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555247
- ISBN
- 9780099555247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.94
€ 20.99
€ 16.94
Paperback. This guidebook spans 18 counties in eastern Florida to showcase 136 birding sites from the Georgia border to Lake Okeechobee, including the Jacksonville and Orlando metropolitan areas. The sites are organized into clusters, all within an hour's drive of one another and identified on maps. Editor(s): Cerulean, Susan; Brashears, Julie A. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 b&w photographs, 24 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; GBC; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813025612
- ISBN
- 9780813025612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.60
€ 21.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; KNS; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781501705625
- ISBN
- 9781501705625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.13
€ 27.99
€ 26.13
Paperback. Now in paperback, a fascinating look at our nation's history of drinking and its effects on the American character by bestselling author Susan Cheever. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455513857
- ISBN
- 9781455513857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.38
€ 16.99
€ 15.38
Hardcover. Traces a daughter's search to recover the "missing parts" of a mother, to know her as an individual for the first time. This work seeks to make heard one of those "lost" women's voices that speak from and help create the world that we know. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 160 pages, 19 black-&-white illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; VFJX; VFVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608646
- ISBN
- 9780815608646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.49
€ 24.99
€ 23.49
Hardback. 50 photographers capture the extraordinary moments in the lives of ordinary Mainers What better way to celebrate fifty years of book publishing than to celebrate everyday life in Maine. Gathering the work of fifty photographers from all over the state, the book presents the day to day lives of ordinary Mainers. Editor(s): Lewis, Winky. Num Pages: 144 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEN; AJCR; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 178. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608936496
- ISBN
- 9781608936496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.81
€ 18.81
Paperback. Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema. Num Pages: 400 pages, 142 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113050
- ISBN
- 9780691113050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.67€ 42.52
€ 52.67
€ 42.52
Paperback. Analyzing an eclectic history of film and related media, Split Screen Nation argues that popular visions of the American West and the American South must be thought in relation to one another if we are to fully understand the marks both have left on popular ways of imagining the U.S. Num Pages: 328 pages, over 400 screen stills. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190459970
- ISBN
- 9780190459970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.28
€ 55.28
Paperback. An anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. It assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity, addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism. Editor(s): Miller, Susan Cummins. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 462 pages, New Preface. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896726185
- ISBN
- 9780896726185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.07
€ 29.07
Paperback. Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; GTB; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748625222
- ISBN
- 9780748625222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
€ 34.99
€ 32.05
paperback. Three Plays for the Negro Theater by Ridgely Torrence was the first production on Broadway to feature an all black cast. Despite early critical acclaim the show closed within a month and received little attention thereafter. Curtis explores both the progress of race relations that led to this production and the reasons for its quick demise. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; AN; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Missouri United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826213303
- ISBN
- 9780826213303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.69
€ 50.69
Hardcover. Lester A Walton was African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist. This book, while exploring the contours of his life, seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Missouri
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826217868
- ISBN
- 9780826217868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.55
€ 63.55
Paperback. Each year, more nurses arrive in the United States and begin enrolling in US nursing schools or begin work in hospitals. This book is designed to prepare non-native speakers of English for the language-related skills and tasks and the cultural content necessary for success in associate and baccalaureate degree nursing programs in the US. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ESF; EST; MQC. Category: (LA) ELT advanced; (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 204 x 14. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472032273
- ISBN
- 9780472032273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.86
€ 42.86
Paperback. Examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, this title shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSJ1; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520266919
- ISBN
- 9780520266919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.20
€ 40.99
€ 29.20