×


 x 

Shopping cart

The Americas

Results 3481 - 3500 of 34384

The Americas

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477348
ISBN
9780801477348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.54

hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801448973
ISBN
9780801448973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.36

Paperback. As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 456 pages, 82, 46 black & white halftones, 36 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; TJFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 255 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801880575
ISBN
9780801880575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Considers the appeal of the Christian right wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRC; JFC; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822319672
ISBN
9780822319672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.10

Paperback. As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's black population have failed. This book addresses the revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena. Num Pages: 320 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JFF; JFSL3; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812219586
ISBN
9780812219586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.48

Hardback. Examines the interplay between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal visions of justice and certainty to determine whether there is a space between the two concepts in which modern treaties can be made. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSL9; JPVH3; LNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774811316
ISBN
9780774811316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.98

Paperback. Presents a history of Colombia's "long twentieth century," from the civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. This book explains Colombia's political history, discussing key leaders, laws, parties, and ideologies; corruption and inefficiency; and the paradoxical nature of government institutions. Translator(s): Stoller, Richard. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337676
ISBN
9780822337676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.02

hardcover. An investigation into the Guatemalan adoption industry and its relationship to the United States. Num Pages: 248 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFFN; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803233621
ISBN
9780803233621
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.75

Hardcover. During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. This book looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226193564
ISBN
9780226193564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 39.10

paperback. Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in southern Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this area became one of New York City's worst slums. This is an account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class and social policy. Series: The Columbia History of Urban Life. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780231128490
ISBN
9780231128490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Paperback. Series: American Lives. 168 pages, 2 illustrations. Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. It shows how the major events in the author's early life shaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; BM. Dimension: 214 x 144 x 10. Weight: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803229822
ISBN
9780803229822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.13

Hardback. Discusses the many organizations in Britain and the USA which are neither legally part of the state nor permitted to distribute any profits they earn. These "intermediate organizations" include charities, churches, famine relief agencies, non-state universities and social clubs. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745605814
ISBN
9780745605814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.88

Hardback. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770477
ISBN
9780804770477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.93

Paperback. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770484
ISBN
9780804770484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.56

Hardback. This is the story of one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin American history. The book argues that the economic, political, and cultural dynamics set in motion by the reforms are central to understanding the brutal civil war that ensued in Peru between the state and the Maoist-Leninist Shining Path guerilla movement. Num Pages: 284 pages, 36 half-tones 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724425
ISBN
9780804724425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.98

Paperback. An analysis of the nature and trajectory of Jamaica's foreign relations from 1972 to 1989. It argues that the relative autonomy of Jamaica declined due to the evolution of an international regime, which in effect disallowed the political, social and economic experimentation originally envisioned. Num Pages: 228 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBT; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9789766400583
ISBN
9789766400583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.23

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPQB; KCLT; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636375
ISBN
9780691636375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.86

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 274 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691607856
ISBN
9780691607856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173597
ISBN
9780691173597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 line illus. 27 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBTS; JHB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162775
ISBN
9780691162775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.66

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!