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Paperback. This is a social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the US. It tells a human story about people who had a deep and unshakeable desire to transform their bodily sex. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JFSJ5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013797
ISBN
9780674013797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.54

Paperback. Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 227 x 6. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486286280
ISBN
9780486286280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages, 87 color illus. BIC Classification: 1K; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 243 x 12. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588395764
ISBN
9781588395764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.93

Hardcover. Series: Pre-Columbian Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Num Pages: 584 pages, 87 color plates, 135 color photos, 45 black and white photos, 1 color illustration, 129 b. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ACG; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 234 x 44. Weight in Grams: 3052.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884023753
ISBN
9780884023753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.64
€ 82.22

Hardcover. Editor(s): Pillsbury, Joanne. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Num Pages: 520 pages, 212 color illustrations, 79 halftones, 20 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; ACG; HDD; HDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 224 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780884023807
ISBN
9780884023807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.96
€ 61.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801484377
ISBN
9780801484377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.86

Hardback. Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, this title examines what it meant to be mestizo in the early colonial era. It draws on lively vignettes culled from the 16th and 17th-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada to show that individuals classified as "mixed" were not members of coherent sociological groups. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 857.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356295
ISBN
9780822356295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.41

Paperback. Looking at what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in early colonial Spanish America, Joanne Rappaport finds fluid identification processes rooted in an epistemology entirely distinct from modern racial discourses. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBG; HBLL; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356363
ISBN
9780822356363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. In legend, Cumbe ruled the Colombian community of Cumbal during the Spanish invasion. Although there is no proof of his existence, today's Cumbales point to him as their link to the past. Here, Rappaport examines the Cumbales' reappropriation of history and the resulting reinvention of tradition. Num Pages: 262 pages, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226705262
ISBN
9780226705262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.17

Paperback. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 280 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBAH; HBJK; JFC; JFHF; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319726
ISBN
9780822319726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Paperback. Focusing on the period of colonization in the Andean region, this title argues that the European cultural literacy that the authors imposed on the indigenous population was not just a tool for oppression and control but was used by the local people as a means to assert their own cultural identity. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 392 pages, 58 b&w illustrations, 2 charts, 9 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351283
ISBN
9780822351283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 color illustrations; 50 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMVD; HBJK; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823273577
ISBN
9780823273577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.46

Paperback. The recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Prize and the Association for Business Communication's Alpha Kappa Psi Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication, Yates discusses how modern managerial systems evolved within the American business system. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 50, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; KJP; KJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801846137
ISBN
9780801846137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 364 pages, 42, 28 black & white halftones, 14 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890864
ISBN
9780801890864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.22

Paperback. Tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry. Series: In-Formation. Num Pages: 472 pages, 109 halftones. 5 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JHMC; JKS; JPQB; LNTM; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1050.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143859
ISBN
9780691143859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.12
€ 43.04

paperback. This book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, using the story of Domingos Sodre as its backdrop. Translator(s): Gledhill, H. Sabrina. Series: New Approaches to the Americas. Num Pages: 370 pages, 55 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781107439092
ISBN
9781107439092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.45

paperback. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador. Translator(s): Brakel, Arthur. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTS; HBTV; JFSR2; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801852503
ISBN
9780801852503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.18

Paperback. Hailed as a classic in the Portuguese language, this remarkable intellectual biography of the campaigner who fought to abolish slavery in Brazil is published for the first time in English. Editor(s): Bethell, Leslie. Num Pages: 256 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908493668
ISBN
9781908493668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.56

Paperback. Explores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowerment Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; HRA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814731970
ISBN
9780814731970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307742315
ISBN
9780307742315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.56

Paperback. A groundbreaking study of how concepts of virtue and vice are used to deny American women full political rights Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HPS; JFFK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 211 x 15. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439908945
ISBN
9781439908945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.69

As a congressional fellow living in Washington, D.C., Jocelyn Jones Evans was an eyewitness to the institutional culture of Capitol Hill before and after 9/11. She uses her personal experiences as the foundation for this richly researched analysis of how Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 photos, 14 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813125886
ISBN
9780813125886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.27

Hardback. Series: Nature, History, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCO; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774822008
ISBN
9780774822008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.70

Hardcover. Num Pages: 290 pages, 13 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873515108
ISBN
9780873515108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.19

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