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Die Besteuerung von Reiseanbietern
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 46.37Mit dem Wachsen der Europäischen Union kommt dem innergemeinschaftlichen Dienstleistungsverkehr eine immer größer werdende Rolle zu. Dies schlägt sich auch auf den Tourismus bzw. den nichtkommerziellen Reiseverkehr nieder. Jedoch ist die Urlaubslust nicht nur auf das Gemeinschaftsgebiet beschränkt. Erhebungen zeigen, dass sich Fernreisen bei der reiselustigen... more...
Coastal Collectors in the Holocene
UPF 2000; US$ 44.95This is the only full-scale archaeological study of the ancient Mesoamericans who lived in a coastal habitat immediately prior to the onset of an agricultural way of life. more...
The History of El Salvador
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 63.00Plagued by political instability, economic hardships, and massacres of innocent men, women, and children, El Salvador has fought for freedom throughout the centuries. No other reference source captures the suffering and adversities this ever-evolving country has faced. El Salvador's tumultuous history and recent past are clearly documented in this... more...
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 158.00This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk?s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text and talk in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil,... more...
Reconsidering Trenton
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00Trenton, like the state of New Jersey, is often maligned these days, but there was a time when Trenton was the fiftieth largest city in the United States and boasted worldwide leaders in the iron and steel, rubber, and pottery industries. Like many cities of its comparative size and prowess that came of age in the Industrial Revolution, Trenton diminished... more...
Into the Light: The Photo League Years
Bitingduck Press 2009; US$ 10.95Photographs of New York City during the 40s by Sonia Handelmean Meyer when she was a member of the Photo League. more...
A Bintel Brief
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward 's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in... more...
The White House
Little, Brown and Company 2012; US$ 16.99THE WHITE HOUSE: THE PRESIDENT'S HOME IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND HISTORY covers every aspect of White House Life over the past 200 years. Witness multiple refurbishments to the house, media coverage and popular photography of the White House, and photos of its illustrious inhabitants, visitors, and even pets and illustrations. Accompanying the photographs... more...
The Cloud Garden
Transworld 2011; US$ 10.67The Darién Gap is a place of legend. The only break in the Pan-American highway, which runs from Alaska to the tip of South America, it is an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest between the vast landmasses of North and South America. Stories of abduction and murder there are rife and in recent years more people have successfully... more...
Still Philadelphia
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 44.50This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a... more...









