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Paperback / so. Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; PDX; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 192 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807872055
- ISBN
- 9780807872055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.22
€ 59.22
Paperback. A discussion of ways of measuring trends in US income inequality. It looks at: new functional forms for approximating Lorenz curves; comparing income distributions using index space representations; and the maximum entropy estimation method. Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 670.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540642299
- ISBN
- 9783540642299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. Upending many of our assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, this text particularly focuses on the notion that the '60s represented a total rupture and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change. The essays map an alternative history of American culture from the '50s to the '90s. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 224 x 10. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106719
- ISBN
- 9780231106719
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.76
€ 36.99
€ 26.76
hardcover. Editor(s): Glazier, Ira A. Series: Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; GBC; HBJD1; HBJK; HBTG; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 962.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 10th ed.
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810861718
- ISBN
- 9780810861718
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 246.39
€ 246.39
Hardcover. Editor(s): Elit, Laurie. Num Pages: 81 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; MBNS; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 183 x 11. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 81
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600218446
- ISBN
- 9781600218446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.07€ 105.58
€ 154.07
€ 105.58
Paperback. Suitable for those who love the bird we call roadrunner, this photo study presents the author's personal account of the years he has spent observing and recording the daily routine of several roadrunner families. Through his lens, it chronicles roadrunners courting, mating, nesting, hunting, and rearing their young. Editor(s): Meinzer, Wyman. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 280 x 9. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- Tenth Anniv. (2nd)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896725140
- ISBN
- 9780896725140
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.97
€ 20.99
€ 20.97
Paperback. This work investigates problems of unequal access to information technology in the United States. The author examines how the problem arose, how serious it is, and what the future implications might be if the gap in access continues to grow. Series: Information Age Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; JH; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232421
- ISBN
- 9780631232421
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Condition: New
€ 53.48
€ 53.48
Hardback. This book compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Native American policy in Canada and the United States. The contributors include economists, political scientists, and lawyers, who, despite analyzing a number of different groups in several eras, consistently take a political economy approach to the issues. Editor(s): Anderson, Terry L.; Benson, Bruce; Flanagan, Thomas E. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754415
- ISBN
- 9780804754415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.73€ 54.36
€ 59.73
€ 54.36
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345370
- ISBN
- 9781137345370
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Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. Mark Twain's Notebooks combines journal writings with rarely seen sketches and doodles creating a fascinating and often hilarious archive of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. Editor(s): De Vito, Carlo. Num Pages: 336 pages, 150 colour & b&w Illus & photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DN; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 674.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781579129972
- ISBN
- 9781579129972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00
€ 21.00
paperback. Offers information about persons who lived on the frontier, whether that was the trans-Appalachian frontier, the 'wide Missouri' frontier, the mining regions of the Rockies, or the gold-mining/ranching frontiers of California, Oregon, or Arizona'. This book includes Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Calamity Jane, George Custer, and Buffalo Bill. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Bison Books United States
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780803294189
- ISBN
- 9780803294189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.73
€ 41.99
€ 36.73
Paperback. This volume asks questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. The aim is to provide a history that more accurately reflects the dimensions of American experience. Editor(s): Bender, Thomas. Num Pages: 436 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520230583
- ISBN
- 9780520230583
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.97
€ 35.99
€ 25.97
Hardback. This data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; KCA; KCP; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417400
- ISBN
- 9781421417400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.52
€ 24.99
€ 21.52
paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJP; JPHV; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271020105
- ISBN
- 9780271020105
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.52
€ 43.99
€ 33.52
paperback. Legislation to reduce human and environmental injury before it occurs has, in the last two decades, come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The legislation's defenders have lacked a unifying theory, which the authors propose should be the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GPQD; KNXC; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford Law and Politics United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751025
- ISBN
- 9780804751025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.03
€ 42.03
board_book.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Good Night Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 20
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602190856
- ISBN
- 9781602190856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.24
€ 11.24
Paperback. Takes you on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America. This book challenges the conventional notion that children are invisible in the historical record. It contains essays that present their small subjects - elite maidens, abandoned babies, Indian servants, slave apprentices - through their lives and times. Editor(s): Premo, Bianca. Series Editor(s): Johnson, Lyman L. Series: Dialogos. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 1KL; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826334411
- ISBN
- 9780826334411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.01
€ 40.01
Hardback. An exploration of the rise of the crop strain that came to dominate the American tobacco industry and its toll on the Southern landscape that produced it Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; 3JJ; KCT; KNAC; KNDF1; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191165
- ISBN
- 9780300191165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.87
€ 48.99
€ 34.87
Hardback. Examines the army occupying Arizona and New Mexico in the nineteenth-century, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803232525
- ISBN
- 9780803232525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.23
€ 63.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BGB; JPWF; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873513913
- ISBN
- 9780873513913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.11
€ 25.99
€ 24.11
Paperback. This concise, highly practical volume provides an essential guide of "how-to" essays for students to succeed in political internships Editor(s): Reeher, Grant. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNR; JP; VSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813340166
- ISBN
- 9780813340166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.46
€ 20.99
€ 15.46
Paperback. Editor(s): Kowalski, Jeff Karl; Kristan-Graham, Cynthia. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Num Pages: 432 pages, 87 black-and-white photographs, 132 line illustrations, 7 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780884023722
- ISBN
- 9780884023722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.05
€ 53.99
€ 45.05
Paperback. Series: Claremont Institute Series on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742550032
- ISBN
- 9780742550032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.87
€ 63.87
Paperback. When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Num Pages: 458 pages, 19 maps, 44 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; 3JMC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552385265
- ISBN
- 9781552385265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.69
€ 53.69