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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; RNA; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oregon State University United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870718816
ISBN
9780870718816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.50

Paperback. In his powerful memoir Where the Wind Dreams of Staying, Eric Dieterle captures the emotional storms of a boy, and then a man, who seeks meaning in a place, or a place with meaning. His restless search for purpose and identity in the American West moves through cycles of success and failure, love and loss. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 2AB; DNF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oregon State University United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870718656
ISBN
9780870718656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.67

Hardback. This volume contains Langston Hughes's history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also features a selection of Hughes's popular columns and other essays for influential African American publications such as the "Chicago Defender" and "Crisis". Editor(s): De Santis, Christopher C. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Missouri Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213716
ISBN
9780826213716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.36

Hardcover. Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Editor(s): Hafertepe, Kenneth; O'Gorman, James F. (Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the History of American Art, Wellesley College, USA). Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 280 pages, 81 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; AM; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558492820
ISBN
9781558492820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.44

Paperback. This historic novel about blackface minstrels explores below the surface. Eric Lott, writing for African American Review, described it as "A novel of ideas devoted to exploring the complex fate of black and white Americans caught, as ever, in a racial history they can neither surmount nor escape". Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DNF; FV; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558492707
ISBN
9781558492707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.86

Paperback. A complete text of this key document in the history of Western racial thought. The book includes a substantial biography of Gregoire and an analysis of the historical context in which he wrote and the impact of his work. Translator(s): Cassirer, Thomas; Briere, Jean-Francois (Associate Professor, Department of French Studies, State University of New York, Albany, USA). Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558490321
ISBN
9781558490321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.65

Hardback. The inaugural volume of William Howard Taft's collected works. It contains two of his earliest books, "Four Aspects of Civic Duty", which was based on a series of lectures given at Yale in 1906, and "Present Day Problems", which features Taft's reflections on a range of topics. Series: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft. Num Pages: 365 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; DNF; HBJK; HBLW; JPA; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 789. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821413609
ISBN
9780821413609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 458. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412343
ISBN
9780821412343
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.23

paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 712. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821411841
ISBN
9780821411841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 241 pages, Photos, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 254 x 661. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821411803
ISBN
9780821411803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 183 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821411643
ISBN
9780821411643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.23

Hardback. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821410011
ISBN
9780821410011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696789
ISBN
9780816696789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.14

Paperback. Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
25th anniversary ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816670086
ISBN
9780816670086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.11

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816640195
ISBN
9780816640195
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; JHBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816639915
ISBN
9780816639915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.74

Paperback. This new edition of Zapata s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, opens with a new essay on this history of censorship and continues Espada s lifelong fight for freedom of expression." Series: Curbstone. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133853
ISBN
9780810133853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.41

Paperback. The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints. Series: Diaeresis. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HPN; HRAB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133730
ISBN
9780810133730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.69

Paperback. Examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This"engaged" poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the increasing corporatization of US culture. Editor(s): Gray, Jeffrey; Keniston, Ann. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472053186
ISBN
9780472053186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.29

Paperback. Editor(s): Dewey, Fred. Num Pages: 315 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
re:public / Upset Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976014287
ISBN
9780976014287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.37

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hoopes, Roy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Popular Press 1
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780879723279
ISBN
9780879723279
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.51

Paperback. Here, the author/narrator - a representative, in extremis, of contemporary American obsession with beauty, celebrity, transmitted image - finds himself suspended, fascinated, in the remoteness of our wall-to-wall mediascape. It is a remoteness that both perplexes and enthralls him. Num Pages: 180 pages, 57 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299193645
ISBN
9780299193645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.29

Paperback. A collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the concerns about the effects of ranching on the environment. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874176278
ISBN
9780874176278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.20

Paperback. "Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar, among others"-- Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; PSVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870717543
ISBN
9780870717543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.98

Paperback. Riveting, finely crafted essays about family and the natural world, and winner of the 2000 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. Series: Northwest Reprints Book. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HP; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Edition
Second Edition, Revised Edition, New Afterword by
Condition
New
SKU
V9780870717086
ISBN
9780870717086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424471
ISBN
9780857424471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826220288
ISBN
9780826220288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.35

Hardcover. This volume of "The Collected Works" contains essays published by Eric Voegelin between 1929 and 1933. They reflect the intellectual and political tumult of the period and their author's maturing grasp of political reality as he moved away from positivism toward a more open philosophical stance. Editor(s): Heilke, Thomas W.; Heyking, John von. Translator(s): Hanak, Miroslav John; Cockerill, Jodi. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214829
ISBN
9780826214829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.01

Hardcover. Although Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theatre and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes's plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance. Series: The collected works of Langston Hughes vol. 6. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; AN; DD; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1193.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214775
ISBN
9780826214775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.19

Hardcover. This volume contains essays that were published by Eric Voegelin from 1922 to 1928. They trace his intellectual formation in the 1920s, exemplify key moments in his career and cover a number of topics ranging from the highly speculative to more pragmatic questions. Translator(s): Hanak, Miroslav John. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 368 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214423
ISBN
9780826214423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.40

Hardcover. "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes" is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of his Simple stories. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 728.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826214096
ISBN
9780826214096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.07

Hardcover. Part of "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished "Black Writers in a Troubled World". Editor(s): De Santis, Christopher C. (Assistant Professor of American and African American Literature, Illinois State University, USA). Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 632 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1120.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213945
ISBN
9780826213945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.83

Hardcover. This volume contains Langston Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults - "Famous American Negroes", "Famous Negro Music Makers" and "Famous Negro Heroes of America". These works tell of African Americans who contributed to the construction of the American identity. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 312 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DNF; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213723
ISBN
9780826213723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.07

Hardcover. Jesse B. Simple sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly "Chicago Defender" column in 1943. This is an examination of Hughes's "Simple stories". Through the conversations between Simple and his foil, Boyd, Hughes makes clear that both are alike - black men in a racially unbalanced society. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FYB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 767.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213709
ISBN
9780826213709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.42

Hardcover. Although best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. In his introduction to this combined edition of both novels, Hubbard addresses how a black aesthetic tradition shaped Hughes' art and his imagination. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 320 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Missouri
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826213426
ISBN
9780826213426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.74

Hardcover. The period covered by the essays published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. The themes most prominent here reflect the concerns of this transition and the development of Voegelin's understanding of the stratification of reality. Editor(s): Sandoz, Ellis. Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Num Pages: 336 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826212825
ISBN
9780826212825
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.04

Paperback. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition - specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This title addresses this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry. Editor(s): Morris, Daniel; Miller, Stephen Paul. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 552 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
2
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817355630
ISBN
9780817355630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.71

Paperback. Contains stories that explore dimensions of the human landscape, including tales inspired by the midrashic tradition of biblical interpretation, which investigate the eternal human drama through the prisms of scripture, history, and folklore. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817354473
ISBN
9780817354473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.86

Hardcover. "Circling Faith" is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South. Editor(s): Reed, Wendy; Horne, Jennifer. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: BGXA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 203.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817317676
ISBN
9780817317676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816527731
ISBN
9780816527731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34