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Paperback. In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images. This title argues that these kinds of hyperbolic accounts were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, 66 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075341
- ISBN
- 9780226075341
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; KF; KNDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 110
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590332443
- ISBN
- 9781590332443
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.98
€ 37.99
€ 27.98
Paperback. This text assesses the role the University of the West Indies has played since its inception in providing tertiary education to the peoples of the Caribbean, and evaluates the future of the institution as it enters the 21st century. It addresses issues such as tertiary education and technology. Editor(s): Howe, Glenford D. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJW; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789766400798
- ISBN
- 9789766400798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.29€ 46.80
€ 50.29
€ 46.80
Paperback. The political and academic history of Common Core State Standards is thoroughly detailed in "Something in Common." The book takes a look at what Common Core is, how it was created, and why many educators have mixed feelings about its standards. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612501079
- ISBN
- 9781612501079
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.59
€ 40.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. An essential introduction to how sociologists think about and research crime and punishment. Editor(s): Hartmann, Douglas; Uggen, Christopher. Series: The Society Pages. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393920383
- ISBN
- 9780393920383
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.33
€ 18.99
€ 18.33
Hardback. Cities are growing worldwide. This state-of-the-art book focuses on the use and advancement of the "hedonic approach", an economic valuation technique that analyses and quantifies the sources of rent and property price differentials. Num Pages: 278 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387768144
- ISBN
- 9780387768144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 240.27
€ 240.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 40 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; VXQG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764332067
- ISBN
- 9780764332067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.99
€ 18.99
€ 13.99
Hardcover. Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Editor(s): Decker, William Merrill; Harbert, Earl N. Series: American History S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 871.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934909877
- ISBN
- 9780934909877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.29€ 46.67
€ 50.29
€ 46.67
Hardcover. Through case studies and survey research from a variety of US facilities, this work reveals information about the proliferation of HIV and AIDS in the prison population, covering such topics as frequency of sexual contact, the use of condoms, amount of sexual activity among inmates, and drug use. Num Pages: 247 pages, tabs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH2; JKVP; JKVQ1; MBN; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787903084
- ISBN
- 9780787903084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.44
€ 67.44
Hardback. These photographs reveal places we know but scarcely recognize and give us another look at the people of "the greatest generation." Num Pages: 192 pages, 101, 101 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; 3JJH; AJCR; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421410852
- ISBN
- 9781421410852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 35.88
€ 43.99
€ 35.88
paperback. The uniqueness of the many American ethnicities provides the roots of US identity, yet recognizing those differences often makes Americans feel isolated from the whole. This work relies on the tradition of cultural pluralism to argue that unity and individuality are not mutually exclusive. Series: American Intellectual Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521988
- ISBN
- 9780742521988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.74
€ 64.74
Hardcover. Editor(s): Gallagher, John P.; Wilkins, Emmett C. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781614703174
- ISBN
- 9781614703174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.26€ 113.66
€ 166.26
€ 113.66
Hardback. The 2009 instalment of the Review covers the continuation of 2008's economic and political crises from the end of Parliament's first prorogation at the beginning of the year to the start of its unprecedented second prorogation at the end. Series: Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GBCY; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442630864
- ISBN
- 9781442630864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.72
€ 146.72
Paperback. Using a variety of historical sources, Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the domestic culture of letters; mass-produced cheap reading; the culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds shaped literary practice for writers. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226075266
- ISBN
- 9780226075266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.04
€ 35.99
€ 28.04
Paperback. Presents evidence that the saloon, played an important role in the working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in Chicago and Boston, this book offers a discussion of the saloon, as a social institution and a locus of the struggle between middle-class notions of privacy and working-class uses of public space. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067815
- ISBN
- 9780252067815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 45.44
€ 50.99
€ 45.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307389992
- ISBN
- 9780307389992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.80
€ 17.99
€ 15.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820347660
- ISBN
- 9780820347660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.57
€ 37.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. How does the American public formulate its opinions about US foreign policy and military engagement abroad? This title takes an in-depth look at media coverage, elite rhetoric, and public opinion during the Iraq war and other US conflicts abroad. It also reveals precisely what this means for the future of American foreign policy. Num Pages: 368 pages, 39 line illus. 30 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JPS; JPVK; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138596
- ISBN
- 9780691138596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
€ 45.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. Provides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system. Editor(s): Bernard, Thomas J. Series: Alternative Criminology. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BT; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814799550
- ISBN
- 9780814799550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.68
€ 36.99
€ 33.68
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JF; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783810018045
- ISBN
- 9783810018045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.16
€ 69.16
Paperback. Tells the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; JFSS; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 447 x 33. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- HarperOne
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061655944
- ISBN
- 9780061655944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.50
€ 18.99
€ 16.50
Hardcover. Thousands of memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history. Num Pages: 488 pages, 161 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; JFCA; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226159386
- ISBN
- 9780226159386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.68€ 77.93
€ 93.68
€ 77.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- African American Images United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913543733
- ISBN
- 9780913543733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.99
€ 27.99
€ 21.99
Paperback. Offering a history of youth culture based on interviews with former zoot-suiters, this book explores race, region, and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II. It argues that Mexican American and African American youths, along with many nisei and white youths, used popular culture to oppose accepted modes of youthful behavior. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; JFC; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261549
- ISBN
- 9780520261549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42