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The Americas
Paperback. This Very Short Introduction provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 184 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 268 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190219765
- ISBN
- 9780190219765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the US nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFN; JHMP; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318644
- ISBN
- 9780822318644
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.95
€ 31.99
€ 28.95
Paperback. Compares the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. This book traces the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization. Num Pages: 496 pages, 34 line illus. 54 tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1FP; 1KL; JKS; JPB; KCR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135960
- ISBN
- 9780691135960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.64
€ 53.99
€ 38.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Publisher
- Seal Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580053143
- ISBN
- 9781580053143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.93
€ 18.99
€ 13.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, 948 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1408.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764345630
- ISBN
- 9780764345630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 27.80
€ 41.99
€ 27.80
Paperback. "For more than a century, the United States has been the world s most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Series: Global Futures. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 125 x 189 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690070
- ISBN
- 9780745690070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.34
€ 13.99
€ 12.34
Hardcover. Num Pages: 384 pages, 342 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 263 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1310.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764351518
- ISBN
- 9780764351518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.74
€ 52.99
€ 34.74
Paperback. Examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. This work investigates how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HRLM7; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139173
- ISBN
- 9780691139173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Hardback. BIC Classification: 1KL; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
- Publisher
- Grub Street United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910690109
- ISBN
- 9781910690109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.87
€ 32.99
€ 23.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781688014
- ISBN
- 9781781688014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.13
€ 13.99
€ 13.13
Hardcover. Drawing on recently declassified documents and elite interviews with key protagonists that reveal candid recollections, Sally-Ann Treharne highlights the pivotal moments in Reagan and Thatcher's shared history from a new vantage point. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Anglo-American Relations. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748686063
- ISBN
- 9780748686063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.25€ 100.33
€ 103.25
€ 100.33
Paperback. When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659988
- ISBN
- 9780674659988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.09
€ 25.99
€ 23.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KCX; KFFR; LNSH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 190 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Columbia Global Reports
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780990976301
- ISBN
- 9780990976301
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Condition: New
€ 13.80
€ 13.80
Paperback. Far from the crowds and the usual beach and carnival cliches, Rio de Janeiro has countless treasures it reveals only to residents and travellers who wander off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for all those who thought they were familiar with Rio or would like to discover the other face of the city. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Jonglez Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782361951429
- ISBN
- 9782361951429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.12
€ 17.99
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Paperback. Tells the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and egotistic; has no manners, and no curiosity. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787330207
- ISBN
- 9781787330207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.00
€ 25.99
€ 22.00
Paperback. "Gato's head snapped back.. We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned and organised everything. The consequence.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; BM; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785035616
- ISBN
- 9781785035616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.50
€ 19.99
€ 14.50
Hardcover. Num Pages: 239 pages, 214 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WQH; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 306 x 239 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1706.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764337963
- ISBN
- 9780764337963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.76€ 38.58
€ 52.76
€ 38.58
Paperback. Series: Discovering Vintage. Num Pages: 224 pages, 75 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493012657
- ISBN
- 9781493012657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.86
€ 17.99
€ 17.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; JNMN; KJZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062347176
- ISBN
- 9780062347176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.74
€ 36.99
€ 32.74
Hardback. Logically organized and richly illustrated-with more than two hundred color photographs and fifty-two maps-Turtles of the United States and Canada remains the standard for libraries, museums, nature centers, field biologists, and professional and amateur herpetologists alike. Num Pages: 840 pages, 303, 52 maps, 11 black & white line drawings, 240 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSVW5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 285 x 223 x 59. Weight in Grams: 3236.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 840
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801891212
- ISBN
- 9780801891212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.86€ 95.91
€ 97.86
€ 95.91
Paperback. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging global health approaches to animal-borne illness, this title tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 10 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JHMC; MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282629
- ISBN
- 9780520282629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.34
€ 32.99
€ 24.34
Paperback. This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Series: Twentieth-century American Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; AB; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618859
- ISBN
- 9780748618859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.37
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Paperback. The growing Irish population of the Lowell, Massachusetts, "paddy camps" in the nineteenth century proved a tempting source of cheap labor for local mill owners. This work demonstrates how the Irish community in Lowell overcame adversity to develop strong religious institutions, an increased political presence, and a sense of common traditions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs; 16 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBBES; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 534. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252073380
- ISBN
- 9780252073380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.02
€ 31.99
€ 29.02
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 122. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Universe Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780789331205
- ISBN
- 9780789331205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.17
€ 16.99
€ 16.17