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The Americas

Paperback. Since the release of "Rosemary's Baby" in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods, this title examines individual films, directors, and subgenres. Editor(s): Waller, Gregory A. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252014482
ISBN
9780252014482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.87

Hardback. Editor(s): Waller, Brett. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 13. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631178214
ISBN
9781631178214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.18
€ 131.70

Paperback. Series: State Environmental Law Handbooks. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 273 x 209 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1107.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Government Institutes Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865878358
ISBN
9780865878358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 209.96

Series: Innovation & Technology in the World Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775199
ISBN
9780804775199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 144.72

Paperback. Walt Harrington, father of two biracial children, went on a 25,000 mile journey through black America, talking with a variety of black and white people along the way, including a rap star, an old farmer, and a convicted murderer. In this work, he relates what he learned as he listened. Num Pages: 488 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826212597
ISBN
9780826212597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.95

Hardcover. Who more than the Southwesterners who've boldly claimed their home under the same tornado skies could have more cause to celebrate the millennium? This title includes poems that connect to the moments in time that the photographs preserve, and evoke stories that focus on the scope of life then and in the century since ranching came to the region. Editor(s): Neugebauer, Janet. Num Pages: 187 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896724273
ISBN
9780896724273
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.66

Paperback. Features the poem of the author. Editor(s): Cowley, Malcolm. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1961
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140421996
ISBN
9780140421996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.92

Paperback. This new annotated edition inlcudes "Live Oak, with Moss" and prose selections from "Democratic Vistas" and "Specimen Days". The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 944 pages, 11 illustrations, chronology, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSC; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
2 Sub
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393974966
ISBN
9780393974966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.09

Paperback. This volume focuses on the past and present development of African American vernacular English, particularly its development during the antebellum period and its trajectory of change in 20th-century. It studies an isolated bi-racial community situated in a distinctive dialect region. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 2ABM; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631230878
ISBN
9780631230878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.69

Paperback. Explores the role of fear -- and and how it is manipulated by politicians -- in contemporary US society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745324685
ISBN
9780745324685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.71

Hardback.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159119
ISBN
9780691159119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.07

Paperback. In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018334
ISBN
9780674018334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.26

Paperback. He explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States. Num Pages: 584 pages, 25, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW; JPQB; JPS; KCP; PDX; PG; TBX; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 38. Weight in Grams: 832.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
584
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801857485
ISBN
9780801857485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.64

Paperback. Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; KCF; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804749695
ISBN
9780804749695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.49

Hardcover. This is a chronicle of South Carolina describing in human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State. Recounting the period from the first Spanish exploration to the end of the Civil War, the author charts South Carolina's rising national and international importance. Num Pages: 760 pages, 52 colour photographs, 137 halftones, 39 line drawings, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1814.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781570032554
ISBN
9781570032554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.59

Paperback. Argues that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has reovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to r4acial identity and asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a for Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFF; JFSL1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320647
ISBN
9780822320647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.20

Hardcover. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power. This book explores why lawyers are losing their profession and what it will take to bring it back. Num Pages: 248 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226042558
ISBN
9780226042558
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.80

hardcover. Gives readers a glimpse into the life and times of Walter Cronkite in his own words. This book contains selections from interviews between the legendary journalist and an experienced oral historian - Cronkite's friend, Dr Don Carleton. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGF; HBJK; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 186 x 29. Weight in Grams: 964.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Center for American History United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976669739
ISBN
9780976669739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.00

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBNU; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637129
ISBN
9780691637129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.43

Paperback. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638. Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Series: Latin America Otherwise. 458 pages, 1 drawing, 2 maps, 2 figures. Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTR; JFC. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 27. Weight: 644.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
458
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350781
ISBN
9780822350781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.95

Hardback. A geo-political manifesto which questions the idea of Latinity as a sole name for the South American subcontinent. Charts the history of the concept of Latinity from its emergence in Europe under France's leadership through to the present day. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405100854
ISBN
9781405100854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.01

Paperback. A geo-political manifesto which questions the idea of Latinity as a sole name for the South American subcontinent. Charts the history of the concept of Latinity from its emergence in Europe under France's leadership through to the present day. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405100861
ISBN
9781405100861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.09

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Num Pages: 332 pages, 13 b&w illus., 4 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JFC; JFFS; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292705678
ISBN
9780292705678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.00

Hardback. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM1; HRCC2; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479810383
ISBN
9781479810383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.02

Hardback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360766
ISBN
9780822360766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.11

paperback. First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the last generation of enslaved men, women, and children who toiled in Bahia's sugar plantations and later struggled to make lives for themselves following Brazil's abolition of slavery in 1888. Translator(s): Mahony, Mary Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360902
ISBN
9780822360902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCJ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691169194
ISBN
9780691169194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.83

Paperback. Series: The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; KNGS; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816641772
ISBN
9780816641772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.07

paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; WGG; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816640140
ISBN
9780816640140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.88

paperback. This book records Charleston's development from 1670 and ends with an afterword on the effects of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, drawing with special care on information from every facet of the city's life-its people and institutions; its art and architecture; its recreational, social and intellectual life; its politics and city government. Num Pages: 555 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
555
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872497979
ISBN
9780872497979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99

Hardcover. Editor(s): Janikowski, Walter. Num Pages: 393 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KJVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 264 x 184 x 27. Weight in Grams: 894.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
393
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624179921
ISBN
9781624179921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 322.27
€ 213.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS; JPH; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975385
ISBN
9780674975385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.58

Paperback. This work tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving into heart of the domestic slave trade, the slave market. Taking the reader inside the New Orleans slave market the author transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005396
ISBN
9780674005396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.05

Paperback. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402369
ISBN
9781421402369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.19

Paperback. Examines the feminist, African-American and avant-garde counter-cultures that flourished in the USA between the two World Wars. It discusses such topics as public art in the Depression, the proletarian subculture and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 316 pages, 128 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231082792
ISBN
9780231082792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.45

Paperback. An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472115898
ISBN
9781472115898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

paperback. Num Pages: 68 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
RAND United States
Number of pages
68
Condition
New
SKU
V9780833030610
ISBN
9780833030610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
35th Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801485954
ISBN
9780801485954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.80

Paperback. Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration. Num Pages: 864 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393964745
ISBN
9780393964745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.87

Hardback. Explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players including Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, and more, the author shows the importance of domestic upheaval on the election. Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742543911
ISBN
9780742543911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.89