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Hardcover. A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545787
- ISBN
- 9781137545787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Paperback. This book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of various racial doctrines within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763356
- ISBN
- 9780804763356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Lazo, Rodrigo; Aleman, Jesse. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479855872
- ISBN
- 9781479855872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Hardback. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania. Num Pages: 272 pages, 36, 19 black & white halftones, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; JHBL; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873812
- ISBN
- 9780801873812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Durand, Emilia S. Num Pages: 123 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; JWK; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- Updated
- Number of pages
- 123
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608769346
- ISBN
- 9781608769346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.32€ 52.40
€ 72.32
€ 52.40
hardcover. Drawing on interviews and analysis of primary documents, including two Royal Commissions, this work demonstrates how Canadian women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFFJ; JFSJ1; JHBL; JPQB; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- UBC Press Canada
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808200
- ISBN
- 9780774808200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.72
€ 113.72
Paperback. Here, the author recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in an attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies. He redraws the relationships among empirical research, law, and public policy. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 halftones, 14 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226316093
- ISBN
- 9780226316093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.84
€ 42.99
€ 33.84
Hardback. Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, this book includes essays that take a cultural measure of the region's great technological milestones, including San Diego's Panama-California Exposition, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the Sierras, and traffic planning in Los Angeles. Editor(s): Janssen, Volker. Series: Western Histories. Num Pages: 400 pages, 35 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520289109
- ISBN
- 9780520289109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.83€ 65.19
€ 82.83
€ 65.19
Berea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855. Using primary sources, recent scholarship, and powerful photographs, the author charts the history and development of one of most distinguished institutions of higher learning. Num Pages: 272 pages, 184 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBT; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123790
- ISBN
- 9780813123790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.78
€ 48.78
hardcover. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929798
- ISBN
- 9780813929798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.02
€ 78.02
Hardback. Drawing on the General Social Survey - a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in the United States since 1972, this title offers a window into diverse facets of American life, from intergroup relations to political views and orientations, social affiliations, and perceived well-being. Editor(s): Marsden, Peter V. Num Pages: 408 pages, 86 line illus. 66 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133317
- ISBN
- 9780691133317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.33€ 82.78
€ 107.33
€ 82.78
Hardback. Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, seeing it not as the representation of the black experience, but as the visual negotiation between film as art and the social construction of race, as well as an interdisciplinary form that enacts black visual and expressive culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362050
- ISBN
- 9780822362050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.59
€ 109.59
Development of the Income Smoothing Literature, 1893-1998
Buckmaster, Dale A.. Ed(S): Previts, Gary J.;...
Hardback. This volume describes the development of accounting thought during the 20th century by focusing on a relatively narrow and long-lived issue, income smoothing. A chronological review of English-language literature referring to income smoothing behaviour is conducted that covers 1893 to 1998. Editor(s): Previts, Gary J.; Bricker, Robert. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; KFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762308040
- ISBN
- 9780762308040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.13
€ 227.13
Paperback. This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America. Num Pages: 212 pages, 28 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326. Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment. 212 pages, 28 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables. This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KLC; JP. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521730792
- ISBN
- 9780521730792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.19
€ 42.19
Paperback. Wry and insightful, "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line" takes readers on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate practical usefulness, and marketplace triumph are the best measures of a university's success. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016347
- ISBN
- 9780674016347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.61
€ 37.99
€ 32.61
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTB; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633039
- ISBN
- 9780691633039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 258.72
€ 258.72
Hardback. Black Muslims in the U.S. seeks to address deficiencies in current scholarship about black Muslims in American society, from examining the origins of Islam among African-Americans to acknowledging the influential role that black Muslims play in contemporary U.S. society. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337498
- ISBN
- 9781137337498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardback. Alive with personal stories, this book considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774810135
- ISBN
- 9780774810135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.09
€ 112.09
Hardcover. Mitra analyzes how race and class of immigrant Punjabi taxi drivers influence their settlement patterns in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032843
- ISBN
- 9781137032843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
A popular theme of collecting is kitchen glass: bowls, reamers, measuring cups, shakers, and more. During the 1930s McKee Glass Company created some of todays most interesting and sought-after designs. This new book offers historical insight into the McK Num Pages: 144 pages, 327 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764330841
- ISBN
- 9780764330841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 25.06
€ 36.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation is a comprehensive account of Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Through her letters and poems, Brantley identifies Dickinson's dialogue with John Locke's rational empiricism, Charles Darwin's evolutionary biology, Wordsworth's "natural Methodism," and Emerson's idealism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555595
- ISBN
- 9781137555595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781459
- ISBN
- 9780804781459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPF; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479877485
- ISBN
- 9781479877485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.53
€ 33.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Publishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture. Editor(s): Villa, Raul Homero; Sanchez, George J. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882081
- ISBN
- 9780801882081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.47
€ 36.47