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Hardback. One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, "Democracy in America" continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. This book is written expressly to help general readers and students alike get the most out of this seminal work. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226737034
- ISBN
- 9780226737034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 43.95
€ 51.78
€ 43.95
Paperback. When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. Presenting an analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, this title uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark days in December 1994 to the financial recovery of June 1996. Num Pages: 320 pages, 86 tables, 1 map, 1 line figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HBTB; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520214866
- ISBN
- 9780520214866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.68
€ 35.99
€ 25.68
Hardback. This is the forty-seventh volume of The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, which contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies. Editor(s): McRae, Don M.; Mestral, A. L. C. de. Series: Canadian Yearbook of International Law. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GBC; LB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- 2009 ed.
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774819879
- ISBN
- 9780774819879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.27
€ 212.27
Hardcover. Num Pages: 146 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 261 x 186 x 15. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590330555
- ISBN
- 9781590330555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.90€ 68.60
€ 90.90
€ 68.60
Paperback. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became. Num Pages: 497 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 497
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217908
- ISBN
- 9780823217908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.71
€ 56.71
Paperback. McKernan takes the rich tradition of the Dodgers and presents the legend and lore "in brief" through quotes, humor, facts, figures, and memories. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 81.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589792579
- ISBN
- 9781589792579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.42
€ 9.42
Paperback. A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393328516
- ISBN
- 9780393328516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.90
€ 18.99
€ 16.90
Paperback. Editor(s): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Schuler, Anya; Strasser, Susan; Schuler, Anja. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFK; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484698
- ISBN
- 9780801484698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 48.80
€ 54.99
€ 48.80
Hardback. A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781439902783
- ISBN
- 9781439902783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.47
€ 75.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BG; HBJK; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 30.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762792429
- ISBN
- 9780762792429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.96
€ 27.99
€ 21.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714526096
- ISBN
- 9780714526096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.94
€ 10.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. Life in America at the turn of the 19th century has been characterised as distinctly male orientated. Fleissner disputes this popular view and uncovers a new understanding of the era through naturalism, the prominent literary style of the time. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226253107
- ISBN
- 9780226253107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.17
€ 41.99
€ 32.17
paperback. Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 photographs; 3 line drawings; 3 maps; 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 1KBBER; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780252076138
- ISBN
- 9780252076138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.30
€ 24.30
The United States spends more money on health care by far than any other country and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 168 x 39. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787997526
- ISBN
- 9780787997526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.59
€ 41.59
Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--and How to Get Back on T...
Calfee Phd, Robert C., Wilson Phd, Kathleen M...
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The Guilford Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781462524327
- ISBN
- 9781462524327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.34
€ 36.34
Hardcover. Part of a series which covers the eight precedent-setting years of Washington's presidency and his brief retirement. Volume three covers most of the summer of 1789 and focuses on the problems facing the new administration. Series: Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1166.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 625
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813912103
- ISBN
- 9780813912103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.36
€ 124.36
Hardback. Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critical period after World War II. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJP; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691154152
- ISBN
- 9780691154152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.53
€ 51.99
€ 36.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPR; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 205.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634750
- ISBN
- 9780816634750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.46
€ 31.99
€ 28.46
The Public Research University. Serving the Public Good in New Times.
. Ed(S): Lewis, Darrell R.; Hearn, James
Paperback. Public Research University was written to help frame and stimulate debate on issues surrounding the changes underway within America's public research universities. Editor(s): Lewis, Darrell R.; Hearn, James. Num Pages: 260 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761825173
- ISBN
- 9780761825173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 105.38
€ 105.38
hardcover. This 2005 book is an exciting exploration of a century of scientific discovery. Num Pages: 294 pages, 63 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JNM; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780521830812
- ISBN
- 9780521830812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.79
€ 124.79
Paperback. From its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, this book charts the development of slumming. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 432 pages, 19 halftones, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226322445
- ISBN
- 9780226322445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.99
€ 36.99
€ 28.99
Paperback. Examines the religious experiences of the new second generation of immigrants to the US: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants Editor(s): Chen, Carolyn; Jeung, Russell. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814717363
- ISBN
- 9780814717363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardback. A comparative feminist work that starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. It examines the contemporary gendered spaces of citizenship, travel, and popular culture across the Caribbean. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349341
- ISBN
- 9780822349341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.05
€ 120.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 458 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565847941
- ISBN
- 9781565847941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.25
€ 31.25