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The Americas

Paperback. Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, the author calls into question Horace Mann's famous proclamation that education is the "great equalizer" and examines how education stratifies students based on socioeconomic background, race, and gender. Series: Sociology in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 302 pages, 33 scattered, b/w line art. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285118
ISBN
9780520285118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.22

Hardcover. Provides the study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226134611
ISBN
9780226134611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226324777
ISBN
9780226324777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JPVH; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300125856
ISBN
9780300125856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.07

Paperback. Demonstrates how parental and sexual identities are formed and interpreted in law, and how gay and lesbian parents can harness indeterminacy to transform family law Num Pages: 278 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; LNMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780814776988
ISBN
9780814776988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.52

Paperback. How Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identity Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3; MBNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439903094
ISBN
9781439903094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

Hardback. This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 tables, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754132
ISBN
9780804754132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.49

Paperback. This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 tables, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754149
ISBN
9780804754149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.11

paperback. The case for woman suffrage, economic equality, and citizenship in WWI Num Pages: 264 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBWN; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252074967
ISBN
9780252074967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.29

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691119748
ISBN
9780691119748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.83

Hardcover. Links African American and environmental studies to show that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. This book examines the works of such canonical figures as Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington, and others, who wrote about how slavery and racial oppression affected black Americans' relationship to environment. Series: American Political Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPA; RNA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700615162
ISBN
9780700615162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.43

hardcover. Making Multiracials explains how a social movement emerged around mixed race identity in the 1990s and how it made "multiracial" a recognizable racial category in the United States. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755450
ISBN
9780804755450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.81

paperback. Explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 photographs, 20 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822318989
ISBN
9780822318989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813549873
ISBN
9780813549873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.92

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813549880
ISBN
9780813549880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.60

Paperback. Drawing on years of research in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict. The micropolitics of reconciliation practiced there complicates the way we understand transitional justice and coexistence in the aftermath of war. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 480 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812223262
ISBN
9780812223262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.59

Paperback. Rooted in traditional Japanese aesthetics and meditations on contemporary neuroscience, a stunning new volume from an essential American poet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393354409
ISBN
9780393354409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.46

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813527871
ISBN
9780813527871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.93

Hardcover. Ethnocentrism - our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups - pervades societies around the world. This book explains how ethnocentrism shapes American public opinion. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 25 line drawings, 44 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226435701
ISBN
9780226435701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.18

Paperback. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, this title clarifies and challenges prevailing conceptualizations of post colonialism and accepted understandings of American culture. Editor(s): King, Professor C. Richard. Num Pages: 376 pages, 37 black & white photographs, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252068522
ISBN
9780252068522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.69