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Paperback. Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252076961
- ISBN
- 9780252076961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.22
€ 27.99
€ 26.22
Paperback. Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the rights granted US citizens nor allowed access to the tribal programs and resources. This book investigates how urban Native Americans negotiate what the author argues is, in effect, a transnational existence. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340300
- ISBN
- 9780822340300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.28
€ 36.99
€ 34.28
Paperback. Focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. Editor(s): Falola, Toyin; Childs, Matt D. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 472 pages, 10 b&w photos, 8 figures, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1K; GTB; HBTS; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253217165
- ISBN
- 9780253217165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
Hardback. Billy Sunday, American evangelist, was also known well as a former professional baseball player. This work explores Sunday's professional baseball career, not to challenge his reputation, but rather to examine the coming of age of an interesting and important character in American history. Series: American Sports History Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGS; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810837270
- ISBN
- 9780810837270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.56
€ 108.56
Paperback. Examines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. This title discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns. Num Pages: 376 pages, 8 line drawings, 38 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; AP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226792873
- ISBN
- 9780226792873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.37
€ 42.99
€ 33.37
Paperback. The steady rise of Clint Eastwood s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. Series: Polity America Through the Lens Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; GTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 212 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650418
- ISBN
- 9780745650418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.18
€ 23.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442223806
- ISBN
- 9781442223806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.84
€ 30.99
€ 26.84
paperback. In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780802096425
- ISBN
- 9780802096425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.74
€ 42.99
€ 38.74
paperback. Freud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how and why mid-twentieth-century advertisers adopted Freudian psychology to sell products. This study follows the careers of Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James Vicary, Alfred Politz, Pierre Martineau, Edward Bernays, and the father of motivational research, Ernest Dichter. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222265
- ISBN
- 9780812222265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Hardcover. Editor(s): Watson, Robert P. Num Pages: 289 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 183 x 23. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590334478
- ISBN
- 9781590334478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.59€ 50.50
€ 64.59
€ 50.50
In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643116
- ISBN
- 9781442643116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Paperback. A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization. Num Pages: 360 pages, 45 tables, 9 figures, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774810593
- ISBN
- 9780774810593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.19
€ 40.99
€ 36.19
Hardcover. A powerful chronicle of the astounding persistence of Indo-European glorification of battle, morphed into today's militant Christian Right. The book is written as a lively chronicle making clear the astounding power of the ancient cultural tradition embedding our language, and the real battle we face to contain this 'Christian' jihad. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282149
- ISBN
- 9781137282149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764335693
- ISBN
- 9780764335693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.67
€ 20.99
€ 15.67
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lin, Cheng-Yi; Roy, Denny. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCW; 1KBB; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112780
- ISBN
- 9780230112780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them. Editor(s): Paton, Diana. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 b&w photos, 2 maps, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JH; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822326472
- ISBN
- 9780822326472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.43
€ 32.99
€ 29.43
The Landmarks of New York. An Illustrated, Comprehensive Record of New...
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AGP; AMX; GM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5817 x 53. Weight in Grams: 2313.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 912
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479883011
- ISBN
- 9781479883011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.76
€ 85.76
Hardback. Why did a practice that had been considered a duty stop being a duty, or, conversely, why did daughters lose the right they had previously enjoyed of receiving from their parents the wherewithal to contribute to the support of their marriage? Despite the many anthropological studies about dowry, this book offers an analysis of its disappearance. Num Pages: 268 pages, tables, figures, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719285
- ISBN
- 9780804719285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.56
€ 93.56
Hardcover. Editor(s): Durham, Brian J. Num Pages: 206 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPA; JWK; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180 x 17. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614701224
- ISBN
- 9781614701224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 260.74€ 176.88
€ 260.74
€ 176.88
Paperback. Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 halftone, music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195109757
- ISBN
- 9780195109757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.14
€ 51.14
Paperback. Integrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities. Series: Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion. Num Pages: 246 pages, 29 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPA; UBJ; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305769
- ISBN
- 9780226305769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.90
€ 35.99
€ 28.90
Hardcover. In this volume, the circumstances and reasoning behind Adams's bold moves in the spring of 1781 are presented in full, showing him to be a determined and resourceful diplomat, unafraid to go beyond the bounds of traditional diplomacy to implement his vision of American foreign policy. Editor(s): Ryerson, Richard Alan; Cecere, Anne Decker; Shea, Jennifer; Taylor, C. James; Walker, Celeste. Series: Adams Papers. Num Pages: 568 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1371.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674011366
- ISBN
- 9780674011366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.93€ 131.30
€ 147.93
€ 131.30
One of the most renowned Washington insiders of the twentieth century, Clark Clifford (1906-1998) was a top advisor to four Democratic presidents. This title chronicles Clifford's rise from midwestern lawyer to Washington power broker and presidential confidant. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813125510
- ISBN
- 9780813125510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.71
€ 81.71
Hardcover. Citizen Satisfaction investigates the topic of satisfaction with government services from a variety of perspectives, using case studies and empirical results from satisfaction studies at the federal level. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341340
- ISBN
- 9780230341340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36