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Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816636570
ISBN
9780816636570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.08

Paperback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816636587
ISBN
9780816636587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.95

Hardback. Series: Focus on American History Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 280 color and b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKT; WCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 259 x 814. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477309186
ISBN
9781477309186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WBA; WBN; WBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 41.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762759644
ISBN
9780762759644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.93

Hardback. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 53, 53 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AKLC; HBJK; HBLW; JFCA; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801865145
ISBN
9780801865145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.19

Paperback. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form. Num Pages: 360 pages, 53, 53 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801874505
ISBN
9780801874505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.12

Paperback. Explores the comic in the work of three North American writers. Pughe concentrates mainly on their texts: Robert Coover's "A Night at the Movies" and "The Public Burning"; Stanley Elkin's "The Dick Gibson Show", "The Franchiser" and "The Magic Kingdom"; and Philip Roth's Zuckerman series. Series: International Cooper Series in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764350239
ISBN
9783764350239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.21

Paperback. Combines historical research with cultural analysis to provide a study of television comedy as a reflection of the diversity and richness in American society. This book examines the roots of television comedy beginning with the influence of Vaudeville, cinema and radio on the variety shows and sitcoms of the 1940's and 1950's. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781577180036
ISBN
9781577180036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.85

This book became an immediate bestseller when it was published in hardcover in October 1982. Available in a paperback edition since 1983, this enduring favorite is now even more useful with a new spiral binding. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 257 x 211 x 13. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826323866
ISBN
9780826323866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; CF; CJB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 1175.
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781794357
ISBN
9781781794357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; WSSN3; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574091359
ISBN
9781574091359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307453433
ISBN
9780307453433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.44

Hardback. This book explores the intersection of entertainment and technology, how companies have had difficulty at this intersection in the past and how they can get it right in the future. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTC; KNTX; PDG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756600
ISBN
9780804756600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the concept of race in the United States from the 1830s, when the abolitionists rose to prominence, until the 1880s, when the Jim Crow regime commenced. J. Michael Martinez argues that Lincoln and the Radical Republicans were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 334 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442214996
ISBN
9781442214996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 14 photographs, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBTB; HRKT; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 689.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803295247
ISBN
9780803295247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.86

Hardback. Series: Vox Humana. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896032620
ISBN
9780896032620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.35

Paperback. This volume analyzes US relations with the major European states and examines the new role for NATO in the post-Cold War world and the evolving dynamics in the US-EU partnership. Editor(s): Ramet, Sabrina Petra; Ingebritsen, Christine. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1QFE; 1QFN; 1QFW; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742500174
ISBN
9780742500174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; WN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970726
ISBN
9781907970726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.72

paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 34. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595581723
ISBN
9781595581723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.36

Paperback. What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Editor(s): Waters, Mary C.; Carr, Patrick J.; Kefalas, Maria; Holdaway, Jennifer. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 line illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSP3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270930
ISBN
9780520270930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.27

Hardback. Explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair's focus on indigenous peoples. At the fair they set the foundation for anthropological inquiry and redefined the field. Editor(s): Hinsley, Curtis M.; Wilcox, David R. Num Pages: 616 pages, 54 b&w illustrations, 18 color illustrations, 3 tables, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 237 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1058.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803268388
ISBN
9780803268388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.49

Hardback. This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748621736
ISBN
9780748621736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.89
€ 138.57

Paperback. This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748621743
ISBN
9780748621743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.48

Hardback. An anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. It helps us to see how gender roles and social class are reproduced in a culture experiencing profound upheaval. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFSF; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293574
ISBN
9780312293574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

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