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Paperback. Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? This title examines the inconsistent and inadequate reasons given for the veil. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150086
- ISBN
- 9780691150086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.99
€ 20.99
€ 16.99
Paperback. Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. Editor(s): McAnany, Patricia A.; Yoffee, Norman. Num Pages: 392 pages, 91 b/w illus. 22 maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532. Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire. 390 pages, 91 b/w illus. 22 maps. Editor(s): McAnany, Patricia A.; Yoffee, Norman. Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: HBG. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight: 532.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 390
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521733663
- ISBN
- 9780521733663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.66
€ 58.66
Paperback. An intriguing work of history, philosophy, and popular science that explores the human desire to quest. Scientists continually look for the genetic factors that make humans so very different in appearance and behaviour from most animals -- the genes that are uniquely human. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: HB; HP; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470851456
- ISBN
- 9780470851456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.64
€ 11.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- BOOK ON DEMAND POD
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9785874172923
- ISBN
- 9785874172923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 9.65
€ 53.99
€ 9.65
Hardcover. This work chronicles intentional communities in the 20th century. The chronological account first studies the older groups that were operating until 1900, it then explores the impact of the early 19th-century art colonies, before discussing decade-by-decade the new groups formed up to 1960. Num Pages: 350 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815627753
- ISBN
- 9780815627753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.19
€ 48.19
Hardback. A synthetic treatment of Jewish liberalism and US public policy from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, this work identifies the drive for a more tolerant, pluralistic, and egalitarian nation with Jewish desires for inclusion in the larger non-Jewish society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691005096
- ISBN
- 9780691005096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.53€ 72.38
€ 94.53
€ 72.38
This is a comprehensive ethnographic study about the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, whose unique traditions are bound to change accepted notions of marriage, kinship, the family, and gender relations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 table, 20 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761994
- ISBN
- 9780804761994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.10
€ 91.10
Paperback. Originally published in hardcover in 2002. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27 photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616558
- ISBN
- 9780700616558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.28
€ 34.28
Paperback. Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "colour line," the dominant system of racial distinction during the late nineteenth century. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFC; JFSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324430
- ISBN
- 9780822324430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.37
€ 29.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. Editor(s): Kina, Laura. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 36 colour illustrations, 47 illus., 36 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACBS; HBTB; JFSJ5; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295741376
- ISBN
- 9780295741376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.33
€ 42.99
€ 38.33
Paperback. Argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. This book urges us to see how the indeterminacies of subjectivity found in literary texts challenge identitarian constructions. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; HBG; HBLH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336907
- ISBN
- 9780822336907
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.38
€ 32.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. Queer Wales provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales, launching an important discussion and suggesting that perhaps Wales has always been a bit of a queer place to live. Editor(s): Osborne, Huw. Series: Gender Studies in Wales. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 black and white images. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783168637
- ISBN
- 9781783168637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.40
€ 28.40
This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory. Editor(s): Mounsey, Chris; Gonda, Caroline. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 240 x 25. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482713
- ISBN
- 9781611482713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 155.32
€ 155.32
Paperback. In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360049
- ISBN
- 9780822360049
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.09
€ 35.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, 11 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226354620
- ISBN
- 9780226354620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.46
€ 35.99
€ 28.46
Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323495
- ISBN
- 9780822323495
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.23
€ 41.99
€ 37.23
Paperback. At the dawn of the second millennium, the lives and deaths of two powerful and pious women, Mathilda (d. 968) and Adelheid (d. 999) were recorded. This volume brings together in English the anonymous "Lives of Mathilda" and Odilo of Cluny's "Epitaph of Adelheid". Translator(s): Gilsdorf, Sean. Series: Medieval Texts in Translation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813213743
- ISBN
- 9780813213743
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Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826119
- ISBN
- 9780753826119
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her. This title tells the story of a man devoted to his queen, sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened English state. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 122 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571218271
- ISBN
- 9780571218271
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. This title tells the story of their lives in terms of world impact, their own personal achievements, and in their roles as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 229
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752454726
- ISBN
- 9780752454726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.37
€ 13.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and for the next twenty years they were inseperable. Their descendants were to succeed to most of the thrones of Europe. This biography provides an assessment of the monarch. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752450612
- ISBN
- 9780752450612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.40
€ 14.40
Paperback. The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family. Num Pages: 190 pages, 32 illustrations, tables, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGR; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750911993
- ISBN
- 9780750911993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.39
€ 14.39
paperback. Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and perplexing contradictions. Series: The World in a Life. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- OUP US United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190250003
- ISBN
- 9780190250003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.05
€ 54.05
Hardcover. This is an account of Queen Victoria's relationships with the Emperors, Empresses of France, Germany, Austria and Russia. Victoria had close connections with the royal houses of Germany long before the King of Prussia became the German Emperor in 1871 and with the exiled former Emperor of the French after the fall of the French Empire in 1870. Num Pages: 208 pages, 64 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 247 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781555507
- ISBN
- 9781781555507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.69
€ 25.99
€ 18.69