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Paperback. Clean copy in good to very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF0006673
- ISBN
- 9780875463551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Editor(s): Godden, Danielle A.; Andrews, Mason C. Num Pages: 204 pages, tables, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612095011
- ISBN
- 9781612095011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.47€ 146.39
€ 215.47
€ 146.39
Community Colleges and the Access Effect: Why Open Admissions Suppress...
Scherer, Juliet Lilledahl, Anson, Mirra Leigh
Paperback. Taking on the cherished principle that community colleges should be open to all students with a high school education, Scherer and Anson argue that open access policies and lenient federal financial aid laws harm students and present the case for raising the minimum requirements for community college entry. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKA; JNMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336019
- ISBN
- 9781137336019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.53€ 44.92
€ 50.53
€ 44.92
Hardcover. Donald Rumsfeld was a natural for secretary of defense, he was smart, he worked hard, and he was skeptical of the status quo in military affairs and dedicated to high-tech innovations. This work offers a nonpartisan assessment of Rumsfeld's impact on the US military establishment from 2001 to 2006, focusing especially on the Iraq War. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615872
- ISBN
- 9780700615872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.17
€ 65.17
Hardback. This work aims to provide genealogists and family-history researchers with an extensive, indexed source of German surname immigrants. This entire project (covering names through to May 1869) will span the years from 1850 to the 1890s. Editor(s): Glazier, Ira A.; Filby, William P. Series: Germans to America. Num Pages: index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; GBC; HBTG; JFFN; JPVH1; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780842023191
- ISBN
- 9780842023191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.79
€ 247.79
Hardcover. Editor(s): Robinson, Jacqueline R.; Miller, Francis. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FCA; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621009849
- ISBN
- 9781621009849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 287.29€ 194.14
€ 287.29
€ 194.14
paperback. In this provocative set of essays, John Bookman delves beneath the transitory issues of the day to identify and respond to the fundamental, perennial questions of American politics. The questions concern the myths that shape the thinking of so many Americans about politics. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597971997
- ISBN
- 9781597971997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.31
€ 26.99
€ 23.31
Paperback. The US Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential? This book traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 856 pages, 13 halftones. 17 line illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; JPH; KNDP; LNTM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 824
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141800
- ISBN
- 9780691141800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.60€ 44.02
€ 55.60
€ 44.02
Paperback. Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This book tells the story of Tubman's life as an American icon. Num Pages: 424 pages, 88 illustrations ( incl. 9 in color). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340737
- ISBN
- 9780822340737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.33
€ 36.99
€ 33.33
Paperback. Series: Life and Times. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 204 x 203 x 3. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Capstone Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781515724841
- ISBN
- 9781515724841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.62
€ 8.99
€ 8.62
This new book covers every nuclear delivery system the United States ever deployed. With few exceptions, each weapon and system is illustrated by either color or black and white photographs. Each weapon also comes with specifications and a history of its development, deployment and retirement (if retired). Num Pages: 240 pages, over 300 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 279 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1380.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764300639
- ISBN
- 9780764300639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.27€ 38.62
€ 53.27
€ 38.62
Hardcover. This work analyses and challenges the rise of communitarian thought in America. It argues that the "new communitarians" are actually old liberals trying to salvage political legitimacy by advocating allegiance to the "sacred" state rather than the traditions of family, church and community. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700607624
- ISBN
- 9780700607624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.29
€ 65.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFN; JFSL1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766400217
- ISBN
- 9789766400217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.35
€ 43.35
Hardcover. Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. This title examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. It presents an account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226142395
- ISBN
- 9780226142395
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.67€ 77.08
€ 92.67
€ 77.08
Paperback. This work contains James K. Galbraith's most influential recent writings on current affairs along with new commentary, and explores both the descent to disaster in Iraq and the ongoing transformation of the American economy under the steerage of Alan Greenspan. Num Pages: 239 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCL; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019010
- ISBN
- 9780230019010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Paperback. Not in This Family shows how gays and their heterosexual parents both have animated each other's sensibilities, consciousness, and even culture and politics. Author Heather Murray suggests a reciprocal family life and complicates the notion of gay banishment. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222241
- ISBN
- 9780812222241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.93
€ 43.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Leary, Earl V. Num Pages: 129 pages, colour maps & tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 129
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781606926482
- ISBN
- 9781606926482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.39€ 43.07
€ 61.39
€ 43.07
Paperback. Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469615325
- ISBN
- 9781469615325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.61
€ 53.61
Paperback. Presents the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for our federal republic. The author serves as a guide to these texts. Num Pages: 368 pages, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066229
- ISBN
- 9780674066229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.08
€ 23.99
€ 21.08
Paperback. Present-day Americans may feel secure in their citizenship, but there was a time when citizens could be denationalized. Patrick Weil examines the twentieth-century legal procedures, causes, and enforcement of denaturalization to illuminate an important and neglected dimension of American citizenship, sovereignty, and federal authority. Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222128
- ISBN
- 9780812222128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.37
€ 46.99
€ 41.37
Hardcover. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JPVH; KCM; RNF; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403948793
- ISBN
- 9781403948793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3H; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL; JPWL1. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 163 x 244 x 35. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Library of America United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781598533736
- ISBN
- 9781598533736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.63
€ 31.99
€ 28.63
Hardcover. This work weaves the stories of individual Alabamians and Alabama-related military units into a brief narrative history of World War II. Interviews with veterans of the war-front and home-front supplement research from archives, newspapers, scrapbooks, photographs and secondary sources. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; JW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567. Clean copy in good dustwrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0236713
- ISBN
- 9780817307370
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Multidisciplinary social science perspective. Covers history, contemporary issues, the economy, and comparative studies on immigration to the US. Selections by the most important figures in this field. Editor(s): Jacobson, David. Num Pages: 464 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557869166
- ISBN
- 9781557869166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82