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Hardback. Since 1943, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-semitism. This book explores the questions that such inclusion raises for Danish Jews and what their answers can tell us about the meaning of religion, ethnicity and community in modern society. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 282 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJP; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239459
- ISBN
- 9780312239459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. In this study, Amila Buturovic suggests that Mak Dizdar's poetry evokes new possibilities for Bosnians to cast aside national differences based primarily on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 2AG; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239466
- ISBN
- 9780312239466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. During the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered "yes" and were killed. This volume investigates what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJPR; HRCM; JFFE; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239572
- ISBN
- 9780312239572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This study of Hollywood's golden era examines the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other sources, the author reveals how the activism of film fans transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; GTB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239626
- ISBN
- 9780312239626
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Weaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, this text traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage. Num Pages: 333 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239978
- ISBN
- 9780312239978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 48.38
€ 52.90
€ 48.38
Hardback. Taking an innovative approach, Jane Winston's "Postcolonial Duras" radically revises our understanding of both Duras and a crucial swath of French cultural and literary history by studying each one through the lens of the other. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240004
- ISBN
- 9780312240004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book explores the historical themes that inform and animate the more immediate and familiar discussions about petroleum, pipelines, and ethnic conflict in the Caspian region. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QSJ; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240059
- ISBN
- 9780312240059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.72
€ 67.72
Paperback. This volume proposes to answer the question: what is new in French feminism at the beginning of the 21st century? The essays reflect the shift from the theoretical and philosophical approaches that characterized feminism in the 1980s to the more social and political questions of 2001. Editor(s): Celestin, Roger; DalMolin, Eliane; Courtivron, Isabelle de. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240400
- ISBN
- 9780312240400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Paperback. Weaving together careful readings of plays and reviews, memoirs and interviews, biographies and critical essays, this text traces the emergence of the first generation of modern actresses in Japan, a nation in which male actors had long dominated the public stage. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312292911
- ISBN
- 9780312292911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.56
€ 52.90
€ 47.56
Hardback. This text situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism, and makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293222
- ISBN
- 9780312293222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardcover. Rusty Monhollon uncovers the voices of ordinary people on all sides of the political spectrum in the university town of Lawrence, Kansas and reveals how Americans from a range of ideological and political perspectives responded to and tried to resolve political and social conflict in the 1960s. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293291
- ISBN
- 9780312293291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Paperback. Carole H. Dagher presents an account on how Christian and Muslim communities emerged from the 16-year-old Lebanese war, what their points of friction and their common grounds are, and what the prospects of Lebanon's communal representation system and pluralistic society are. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; HRAM9; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293369
- ISBN
- 9780312293369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Paperback. "Primitive Pictures" explores the relationship between early German cinema and anthropology's fascination with "primitive" cultures. At the core of this study is a mythic first contact between the camera and the non-Western body. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; APFA; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293734
- ISBN
- 9780312293734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. This volume is a collection of essays that collectively seek to re-vision the Beats from contemporary critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Editor(s): Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293796
- ISBN
- 9780312293796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Melvin G. Holli shows how presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for his 1932 and 1936 presidential campaigns. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JPHF; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293956
- ISBN
- 9780312293956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293994
- ISBN
- 9780312293994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Paperback. This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; ASD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294434
- ISBN
- 9780312294434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 81.76€ 69.00
€ 81.76
€ 69.00
Hardcover. Through the growth of internationalization and a growing acceptance of immigration rights, union leaders now support more open immigration policies than those once adopted in the first part of the 20th century. This is a research into those changes from the beginning to the end of the century. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294946
- ISBN
- 9780312294946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.15
€ 52.90
€ 47.15
Paperback. Bringing together history, literature, and popular culture, this book provides a cultural history of France from a period of dominance in the mid-19th century to one of decline or crisis in the first few years of the third millennium. Contains both chronological narrative and a selection of primary documents in translation. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295240
- ISBN
- 9780312295240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.64
€ 73.64
Hardback. Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors to this volume trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a difficult past and in the shadow of the culture and political values of the United States. Editor(s): Muller, Jan-Werner. Series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295790
- ISBN
- 9780312295790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97