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Hardback. Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. And for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. This title challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. Num Pages: 240 pages, 36 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQ; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135632
- ISBN
- 9780691135632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Paperback. The story of East New York, once a working-class immigrant neighborhood, it became a largely black and Puerto Rican one, and shows how a series of racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814782675
- ISBN
- 9780814782675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Series: Latin American Silhouettes. Num Pages: 334 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742556003
- ISBN
- 9780742556003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.81
€ 72.81
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Outwater, Eric B. Num Pages: 112 pages, 247 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; ACX; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 219 x 8. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764309441
- ISBN
- 9780764309441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.75
€ 24.99
€ 20.75
Paperback. A personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. Num Pages: 192 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; BGA; HBTB; HRCC99. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed
- SKU
- V9781559362412
- ISBN
- 9780873388283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.17
€ 20.99
€ 20.17
Paperback. This text responds to the idea that American civic institutions are hard pressed, and growing cynical and disconnected from one another. It argues that restoring local institutions will not solve the problem; a civil society needs politics/government to provide a sense of shared values and ideas. Series: Morality and Society Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226041469
- ISBN
- 9780226041469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.17
€ 41.99
€ 32.17
paperback. Sophisticated, culturally sensitive, and accessible, Edible Histories will appeal to students, historians, and foodies alike. Num Pages: 472 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442612839
- ISBN
- 9781442612839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 45.08
€ 47.99
€ 45.08
Hardcover. The juxtaposition of thirty black-and-white remastered Lindbergh images and thirty contemporary color images, provides a fascinating survey of the area over nearly a century allowing a unique view of the multi-layered, cultural landscape of the American Southwest over time. Num Pages: 108 pages, 30 colour & 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AJ; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 255 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1043.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890136072
- ISBN
- 9780890136072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.11
€ 52.99
€ 37.11
Hardback. Born and raised at Mission San Luis Rey, near San Diego, Pablo Tac became an international scholar. He traveled to Rome, where he studied Latin and other subjects, and produced these historical writings for the Vatican Librarian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti. This title introduces Pablo Tac's life and the significance of the record he left. Illustrator(s): Luna, James. Editor(s): Haas, Lisbeth. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261891
- ISBN
- 9780520261891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.70€ 62.24
€ 81.70
€ 62.24
Paperback. Explores the political dimensions of North American agriculture. Editor(s): Adams, Jane. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GT; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812218305
- ISBN
- 9780812218305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
Paperback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478901
- ISBN
- 9780801478901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.90
€ 41.99
€ 36.90
Hardback. This remarkable account, written by Charles Wilkinson, one of the nation's most respected experts in tribal law and history, is rich in the Indian voice and grounded in extensive research that includes oral tradition and personal interviews. Num Pages: 576 pages, 100 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990668
- ISBN
- 9780295990668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.26
€ 55.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837631081
- ISBN
- 9783837631081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.46
€ 49.99
€ 35.46
Hardback. Presents an analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Aging. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 line illustrations, 160 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674048669
- ISBN
- 9780674048669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.34€ 70.87
€ 79.34
€ 70.87
Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739147900
- ISBN
- 9780739147900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.88
€ 146.88
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century: A Historian's Recollections and ...
Klemperer, Klemens Von, Von Klemperer, Klemen...
Paperback. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the "other" Germany - the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782383833
- ISBN
- 9781782383833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.07
€ 38.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479897841
- ISBN
- 9781479897841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
paperback. Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221087
- ISBN
- 9780253221087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.07
€ 21.99
€ 21.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 201.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Bonus Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929387277
- ISBN
- 9780929387277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.97
€ 16.99
€ 16.97
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rider, Lydia. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNFY; THX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Pub Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633218291
- ISBN
- 9781633218291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.38€ 150.02
€ 224.38
€ 150.02
Hardcover. Chronicles the experiences of an American stock-market trader from his first job as a quotation boy in a Boston brokerage firm to his influential position on Wall Street in the 1920s. The author provides his observations about the markets and the minds and motivations of a typical trader. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGBA; KFFM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471059684
- ISBN
- 9780471059684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.61€ 139.34
€ 172.61
€ 139.34
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNN; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803284616
- ISBN
- 9780803284616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.78
€ 29.99
€ 29.78
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- AK Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904859093
- ISBN
- 9781904859093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.02
€ 26.99
€ 25.02
Hardcover. Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812246476
- ISBN
- 9780812246476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.62
€ 119.62