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The Americas
Over 400 vintage postcards provide a sweeping historical view of the Washington Coast, from the mouth of the Columbia River to the San Juan Islands. In-depth stories of historical maritime Washington complement the images, for a journey up the coast and b Num Pages: 160 pages, 420 color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1094.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764330346
- ISBN
- 9780764330346
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 27.83
€ 41.99
€ 27.83
Paperback. The lives and work of women in the Harlem Renaissance - Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others - situated in the traditions of African-American and American writing. Series: Women of Letters S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209801
- ISBN
- 9780253209801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.68
€ 27.99
€ 25.68
Paperback. Examining the works of Lucille Clifton, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker, this book highlights ways in which these African American authors construct family genealogies, filling in the gaps with dreams, rituals, music, or images that forge a connection to family lost through slavery. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807855867
- ISBN
- 9780807855867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.40
€ 40.40
Paperback. The Sierra Nevada is one of the most scenic, biologically diverse, and historically rich mountain ranges in North America. This work covers a range and its adjacent regions, exploring the Sierra Nevada from such world-famous sites as Lake Tahoe and Yosemite to picturesque mining towns, scenic alpine lakes, lush vineyards, and hidden byways. Num Pages: 432 pages, 144 b/w photos, 15 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1KBBWN; WTH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874177008
- ISBN
- 9780874177008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.25
€ 25.99
€ 24.25
Paperback. During the 1960s, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men cooperated in the hunting of big game while women gathered plant food, "immobilized" by pregnancy and childcare. The essays in Women in Prehistory challenge this model as they reconsider women's social and economic roles. Editor(s): Claassen, Cheryl; Joyce, Rosemary A. Series: Regendering the past. Num Pages: 288 pages, 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBLC; HDDA; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216028
- ISBN
- 9780812216028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.19
€ 44.19
Hardcover. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572337145
- ISBN
- 9781572337145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.83
€ 60.83
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813534060
- ISBN
- 9780813534060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.94
€ 47.99
€ 42.94
Paperback. Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807871621
- ISBN
- 9780807871621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.54
€ 46.54
Hardback. Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252036507
- ISBN
- 9780252036507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.81
€ 124.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AMV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 254 x 8. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810126824
- ISBN
- 9780810126824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.18
€ 21.18
Hardcover. Explores the burst of horticulture interest in the 19th century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its portrayal of ornamental plant use and its examination of 19th-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, this book aims to appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JH; HBT; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557532862
- ISBN
- 9781557532862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.85
€ 59.85
Hardback. Focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520267343
- ISBN
- 9780520267343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.96€ 70.74
€ 91.96
€ 70.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 5AK; YBG; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 218 x 279 x 10. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Act
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613730515
- ISBN
- 9781613730515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.33
€ 18.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BK; HBWQ; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613735237
- ISBN
- 9781613735237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.63
€ 14.99
€ 14.63
hardcover. This study places Djuna Barnes's early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer, especially in her attention to the search for identity and to the conflict between individual values and those of society. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941664172
- ISBN
- 9780941664172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.65
€ 95.65
Hardcover. This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomble and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009999
- ISBN
- 9781137009999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. In Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women's writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL9; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442628588
- ISBN
- 9781442628588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.98
€ 31.99
€ 28.98
Paperback. Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in US history. This book examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2JN; DSB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319443
- ISBN
- 9780822319443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Hardback. Editor(s): Toller, Cheryl A. Num Pages: 107 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JKSB1; JKVJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634635868
- ISBN
- 9781634635868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.32€ 126.68
€ 189.32
€ 126.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 111 pages, b/w & colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888395603
- ISBN
- 9780888395603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.40
€ 15.99
€ 12.40
An Exemplary Citizen. Letters of Charles W.Chesnutt, 1906-1932.
Chesnutt, Charles W.. Ed(S): Crisler, Jesse S...
hardcover. This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by the African-American novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). His correspondents included prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance as well as major American political figures Chesnutt sought to influence on behalf of his fellow African Americans. Editor(s): Crisler, Jesse S.; Leitz, Robert C.; McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804745086
- ISBN
- 9780804745086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.16
€ 103.16
Hardcover. An analysis of Eisenhower's presidency, focusing not on whether he was an active or passive president, but on how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. The authors explore the significance of Eisenhower's policies on a range of issues, from civil rights to atomic testing. Series: American Presidency Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- Rev Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700604364
- ISBN
- 9780700604364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.95
€ 70.95
Paperback. An analysis of Eisenhower's presidency, focusing not on whether he was an active or passive president, but on how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. The authors explore the significance of Eisenhower's policies on a range of issues, from civil rights to atomic testing. Series: American Presidency Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700604371
- ISBN
- 9780700604371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.01
€ 41.01
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut Jr. (Fire Ant Books...
Chestnut Jr, J. L., Cass, Julia
Paperback. Series: Fire Ant Books. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; BGHA; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fire Ant Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817354619
- ISBN
- 9780817354619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.59
€ 44.59