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Paperback. Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."-Time Num Pages: 432 pages, maps; 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393331967
- ISBN
- 9780393331967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.12
€ 19.99
€ 18.12
Paperback. Brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historically situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations. Num Pages: 300 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press Stanford
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720175
- ISBN
- 9780804720175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.24
€ 36.99
€ 33.24
Paperback. The definitive, comprehensive guide to Virginia Beach, Richmond and surrounding areas, with hundreds of lodging, dining, and recreational recommendations. Series: Explorer's Great Destinations. Num Pages: 456 pages, 100 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781581571066
- ISBN
- 9781581571066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.38
€ 31.99
€ 28.38
Hardback. This book offers a new perspective on the history of Argentina by studying economics through the lens of traditionally non-economic perspectives, such as the importance of politics, consumerist culture, women, paternalism, nation-building, and ideology. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 tables, 3 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750127
- ISBN
- 9780804750127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.46
€ 103.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560727293
- ISBN
- 9781560727293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.17
€ 33.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. Explains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from one policy area to another. This book compares results across a wide range of gay rights struggles. It explores debates over laws governing military service, homosexual conduct, adoption, marriage and partner recognition, hate crimes, and civil rights. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 line drawings, 41 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226544090
- ISBN
- 9780226544090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Presents new work by the leading Japanese American playwright working today. Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; AN; DD; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985015
- ISBN
- 9780295985015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.13
€ 33.99
€ 31.13
Hardcover. Offers an argument for the principles of moral democratic realism that inspired the Bush administration's policy of regime change in Iraq. This work connects the Bush Doctrine and modern issues in American foreign policy to the deeper tradition of American diplomacy, drawing from positive lessons as well as cautionary tales from the past. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; JPQB; JPS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124346
- ISBN
- 9780813124346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.57
€ 44.57
Paperback. The real Top Gun - the dramatic account of the US Navy's fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam Num Pages: 320 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 300 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908059000
- ISBN
- 9781908059000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
€ 14.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. An historical ethnography of the banana industry in Ecuador that demonstrates how capitalist transitions have shaped the 20th century. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328636
- ISBN
- 9780822328636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.81
€ 30.99
€ 27.81
Paperback. Series: Chicago Architecture and Urbanism. Num Pages: 96 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 205 x 8. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226115429
- ISBN
- 9780226115429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.63
€ 24.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. Suitable for those who dream of building that longed-for cabin in the woods - or simply find themselves learning to cope with permafrost in a frigid climate. This guide is illustrated with drawings and contains folk knowledge. Num Pages: 103 pages, 9 halftones, 70 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; AM; TNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 218 x 7. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Edition
- 5 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 103
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602230194
- ISBN
- 9781602230194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.34
€ 23.99
€ 21.34
Hardcover. A study of the role of women in early American political history. Catherine Allgor demonstrates that the Republican values so central to the ideology of the post-Revolutionary era actually required the presence of women to permit the federal government to function. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press Virginia
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919980
- ISBN
- 9780813919980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.68
€ 53.68
Paperback / so. Illustrator(s): Czekaj, Jef. Num Pages: colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 272 x 211 x 5. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580891905
- ISBN
- 9781580891905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.23
€ 10.23
Paperback. Tells the story of the author's family struggle to maintain a way of life, keep their farm and educate their children. Num Pages: 188 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803279131
- ISBN
- 9780803279131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.31
€ 23.99
€ 20.31
Paperback. Tells the story of five generations of the author's family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta. This book moves from the land's acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Num Pages: 122 pages, 21 photos, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; TV; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557288714
- ISBN
- 9781557288714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.13
€ 24.99
€ 21.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 728 pages, 12 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JFSL4; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774830041
- ISBN
- 9780774830041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.50
€ 112.50
Paperback. Offers insight on the origins and evolution of women's activism in the United States by examining more than 200 exclusively female antislavery societies that persisted from the 1820s through the Civil War. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875806198
- ISBN
- 9780875806198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.20
€ 35.99
€ 32.20
Paperback. Series: Food Lovers' Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; WTH; WTHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 16.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762779451
- ISBN
- 9780762779451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.15
€ 15.99
€ 14.15
paperback. Aboriginal People's Encounters with the Police. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; JKSW1. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552664759
- ISBN
- 9781552664759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.15
€ 21.99
€ 20.15
Paperback. Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird". Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807856864
- ISBN
- 9780807856864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.68
€ 45.68
Hardback. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFMX; JFSJ1; JFSL3; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252040207
- ISBN
- 9780252040207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.91
€ 124.91
Hardback. Includes the important letters, speeches, interviews, press conferences, and public papers on Woodrow Wilson. This collection contains materials to understand Wilson's personality, his intellectual, religious, and political development, and his careers as educator, writer, orator, and statesman. It also reveals the era in which he lived. Editor(s): Link, Arthur S. Series: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691046211
- ISBN
- 9780691046211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 216.43
€ 216.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Quest Books,U.S. United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780835608510
- ISBN
- 9780835608510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.22
€ 19.99
€ 19.22