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In Sand in the Gears, Andrew Smith argues that the US lost manufacturing not to forces beyond its control, such as globalisation and cheaper labour overseas, but as the result of misguided policies that are well within its abilities to reform for the benefit of manufacturing. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 tables; 4 figures; notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612345888
ISBN
9781612345888
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.12

Hugo Chavez has recently undergone three surgeries for cancer, prompting much speculation and anxiety about the impact of his death. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JFF; JP; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346014
ISBN
9781612346014
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.27

In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Neither Victor nor Vanquished is William Weber's reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346076
ISBN
9781612346076
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.94

Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346311
ISBN
9781612346311
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.37

Hardback. Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses Grant. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346588
ISBN
9781612346588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.53

Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346854
ISBN
9781612346854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 36. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346885
ISBN
9781612346885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.64

Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFSK2; JPVH1; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346977
ISBN
9781612346977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.70

Paperback. From 1917 to 1920 the Woman's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612347196
ISBN
9781612347196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.65

In March 1961, America's most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 34. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612347714
ISBN
9781612347714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.61

Hardback. From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's most prominent political figures. Num Pages: 408 pages, 5 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 236 x 33. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612348148
ISBN
9781612348148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.51

paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 707.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Counterpoint LLC United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619024397
ISBN
9781619024397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.94

Paperback. Have you ever heard a news story of a politician being "found dead" or "committing suicide" and thought it strange, as if there's something they're not telling us? This title gives you the straight facts on some of the most controversial cases. It makes you realize that your instincts were correct. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620878705
ISBN
9781620878705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.02

Conceived during the turbulent period of the late 1960s when 'rights talk' was ubiquitous, this book helps you strove to understand how the rights of federal civil servants had become so differentiated from those of ordinary citizens. Series: Public Management and Change Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; KNV; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626161429
ISBN
9781626161429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 205.32

Paperback. Explores why the United States - counter to widely accepted wisdom in international relations theory - chose the course it did. In this book the author asserted that domestic political institutions and culture played a decisive role in preventing the mobilization of resources necessary to implement an expansionist grand strategy. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626161771
ISBN
9781626161771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.37

Examining issues like alliance commitments, nuclear weapons policy, nonproliferation, and missile defense, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of extended deterrence through the prism of NATO but with implications far beyond. Editor(s): von Hlatky, Stefanie; Wenger, Andreas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSF; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 585.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626162648
ISBN
9781626162648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 206.17

Paperback. Drawing on his experience as a consulting executive and federal government executive, the author shows how to effectively motivate government employees, pick the right technologies, communicate and negotiate with powerful stakeholders, manage risks, get value from contractors, foster innovation, and more. Series: Public Management and Change Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 tables, 10 figures, 6 sidebars, 10 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626163720
ISBN
9781626163720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.41

Paperback. Pummeled by a century of drought, depopulation, and soil erosion, America's Great Plains are in dire straits. Frank and Deborah Popper have a solution: create a Buffalo common by returning 139,000 acres in ten states to prairie and reintroducing the buffalo that once roamed there. Num Pages: 204 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RGBC; RNKH; RPG; WNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510965
ISBN
9780226510965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.53

Paperback. Places black America at the centre of the study of US culture, suggesting new ways of thinking about the US relationship with the post-colonial world. Series: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745329550
ISBN
9780745329550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages, 48 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813167534
ISBN
9780813167534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.29

Hardcover. A comparative study of Canadian magazines (in English and French) in the early to mid-twentieth century, casting light on middlebrow culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381403
ISBN
9781781381403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.34

Paperback. The B-24 was heavily utilized in the North African and Mediterranean theatres by the US Air Force, with operations over the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania. This title relates the experiences of the crews who flew the "heavy" of World War II, and of the aircraft itself. Illustrator(s): Styling, Mark; Rolfe, Mark; Wyllie, Iain. Series: Osprey Combat Aircraft. Num Pages: 96 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 179 x 8. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841760810
ISBN
9781841760810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 21.54

Paperback. The third in a three-volume series, this title details the uniforms, equipment, weapons and organization of the US army of World War II. It covers the forces deployed in the final climactic campaign in Europe and takes them from the build-up in England to deep into the Third Reich. Illustrator(s): Chappell, Mike. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, 40 b&w and 8 colour illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JWD; JWM; JWTR; JWTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 186 x 4. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841760865
ISBN
9781841760865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.41

Paperback. At the start of the American Civil War, neither North nor South had warships on either side of the Mississippi River. Gradually, both sides converted existing riverboats into powerful naval weapons. This title describes their design, development and operation throughout the American Civil War. Illustrator(s): Bryan, Tony. Series: Osprey New Vanguard S. Num Pages: 48 pages, 40 b&w and 7 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 183 x 4. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841764139
ISBN
9781841764139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.47

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