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Hardcover. Tom Kemp's new book, The American Census Handbook, is the first general guide to the thousands of published census indexes currently available in print and online and is sure to be used by beginning and experienced genealogists alike. Num Pages: 517 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTG; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 225 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1840.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 517
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842029247
- ISBN
- 9780842029247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 251.55
€ 251.55
paperback. The customary picture of the World War II era in California has been dominated by accounts of the Japanese American concentration camps, African Americans, and women on the home front. This title examines significant wartime changes in the circumstances of immigrant groups that have been largely overlooked by historians. Editor(s): Lotchin, Roger W. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252068195
- ISBN
- 9780252068195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.10
€ 23.99
€ 22.10
Paperback. A guide to the history of the American welfare program. Editor(s): Nadasen, Premilla; Mittelstadt, Jennifer; Chappell, Marisa. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white tables, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415989794
- ISBN
- 9780415989794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.65
€ 59.65
Hardcover. This important look at CAP combines historical research and analysis with the author's first-hand experience with the organization, providing the first historical narrative of a consequential player in the Black Power Movement. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- PALGRAVE MD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112155
- ISBN
- 9780230112155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
hardcover. In a dramatic and colorful narrative of a pivotal moment in American history, we see how the campaign developed in a web of hard choices by many actors on both sides of the Delaware. 91 halftones,15 maps. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 517 pages, numerous halftones and maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 958.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Academic United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 517
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195170344
- ISBN
- 9780195170344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 41.75
€ 43.99
€ 41.75
Hardcover. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614707219
- ISBN
- 9781614707219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.22€ 116.23
€ 167.22
€ 116.23
Hardcover. A never-before-published edition of the rare chromolithographic Audubon prints of American birds. Num Pages: 256 pages, 150 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; AFC; AGB; AGN; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 590 x 390 x 60. Weight in Grams: 6759.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393088656
- ISBN
- 9780393088656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 327.39€ 300.79
€ 327.39
€ 300.79
Hardcover. Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHMC; KJE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112490
- ISBN
- 9780230112490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 121 pages, 28 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 121
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520265660
- ISBN
- 9780520265660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. An examination of why acceptance into America's most prestigious colleges remains beyond the reach of most students except those from high-income professional families. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756389
- ISBN
- 9780804756389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.49
€ 27.99
€ 26.49
Hardback. One of the significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture was that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family - wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas and alpacas - were native to the Andes. This work offers a study of the South American camelids. Translator(s): Marcus, Joyce. Series: Monographs. Num Pages: 628 pages, , black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA United States
- Number of pages
- 628
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931745413
- ISBN
- 9781931745413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.09
€ 47.09
Hardcover. Num Pages: 113 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 186 x 12. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 105
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604564204
- ISBN
- 9781604564204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.09€ 70.85
€ 100.09
€ 70.85
Paperback. Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety of primary source materials, this documentary reader includes over 50 primary documents and highlights the most important themes of the era. Editor(s): Ward, Brian. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405163309
- ISBN
- 9781405163309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.32
€ 41.32
hardcover. Editor(s): Wise, Carol. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JPA; KCLT1; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 671.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780271018225
- ISBN
- 9780271018225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.07€ 99.41
€ 120.07
€ 99.41
Paperback. Children's full-color book with each illustration portraying several elements indigenous to Montana that begin with the accompanying letter. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Dimension: 279 x 216. Weight in Grams: 14.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Falcon Guides
- Number of pages
- 32
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780937959329
- ISBN
- 9780937959329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.88
€ 14.99
€ 12.88
Paperback. Fojas engages the work of Enrique Gomez Carrillo, the travel writings of Aurelia Castillo de Gonzalez, and Rodo's Ariel, which share a common principle of the practical application of cosmopolitanism. They sometimes conceptualize models of hospitality and sometimes fail, but keep the broken promise of utopist spaces and their imagined cities. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557533821
- ISBN
- 9781557533821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.19
€ 50.19
Hardback. At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map; 36 b notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJG; HBLW; JFFC; JNB; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781612341538
- ISBN
- 9781612341538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Hardcover. The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTK; KNBG; KNBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470917367
- ISBN
- 9780470917367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.62
€ 57.62
Hardback. Explores the conjunction of, and the frictions between, the studies of twentieth-century United States postcolonial studies, race studies, urban studies, and eco-criticism, and works to refigure this portrayal of urban spaces. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230460
- ISBN
- 9780803230460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Paperback. Editor(s): Mackie, Richard; Wynn, Graeme. Num Pages: 304 pages, 60 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Canada
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550175776
- ISBN
- 9781550175776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Hardcover. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJM; KNSH; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801425080
- ISBN
- 9780801425080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.38
€ 93.38
Hardback. Presents an overview of the development of sports in Latin America. This book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. It covers basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events in Latin America. Editor(s): Arbena, Joseph L.; LaFrance, David G. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 241 pages, suggested readings. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; GTB; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842028202
- ISBN
- 9780842028202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.11
€ 156.11
Paperback. Series: Global Music. Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 halftones, 20 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; AVGW; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 211 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195306743
- ISBN
- 9780195306743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.33
€ 138.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 1008 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 58. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sentinel United States
- Edition
- Rev Upd
- Number of pages
- 1008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595231154
- ISBN
- 9781595231154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.15
€ 31.99
€ 31.15