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Paperback. A brief overview of French colonial society before the British conquest of 1759-60. The primary focus is on what is now called Quebec, but there are also chapters on Louisiana and the West, as well as on the Atlantic colonies of Acadia and Ile Royal. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBTB; JHM; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 500. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000335
ISBN
9780802078162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This is a historical and anthropological study of the people of Bali. Separate chapters are devoted to describing the island's geography, the history of the Balinese people, the social order, economy, religion and rituals, myth and the performing arts, and the unusual use of mystic power and magic. Series: Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631227410
ISBN
9780631227410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

paperback. A dictionary that explores the symbols which abound in literature, religion, national identity and are found at the heart of our dreams and sub-conscious. It includes entries that give its interpretations - sexual and spiritual, official and subversive, cultural and religious - to bring meaning and insight to the symbol. Num Pages: 1184 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: GBC; JHM; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780140512540
ISBN
9780140512540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.75

Paperback. Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FC; DS; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253017604
ISBN
9780253017604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
928
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803228436
ISBN
9780803228436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.95

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 312 pages, 34. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475573
ISBN
9780801475573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Hardback. In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography. Series: Wyse Series in Social Anthropology. Num Pages: 274 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKH; JHMC; MBP; MX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333941
ISBN
9781785333941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.00

Paperback. A text on socio-political violence that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. It takes the reader from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East to Asia to capture the cultural construction of socio-political violence. Editor(s): Nordstrom, Carolyn; Martin, JoAnn. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFFE; JHM; JPA; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520073166
ISBN
9780520073166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520262089
ISBN
9780520262089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and colonial interests. It is the operation of these forces, in combination with the talent of Pasteur, that Latour sets out as a prime example of science in action. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan; Law, John. Num Pages: 292 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JHM; MBN; P. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Paberback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674657618
ISBN
9780674657618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 41.87

Hardcover. Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies & Modernities. Num Pages: 262 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Har/Com
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810881471
ISBN
9780810881471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 163.58

Paperback. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351832
ISBN
9780822351832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

hardcover. Looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the nineteenth century to live and work in Paris. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; JFFN; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351696
ISBN
9780822351696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.87

Paperback. Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. This book draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; JFFE; JHMC; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520288522
ISBN
9780520288522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Paperback. In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. This book explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred. Num Pages: 250 pages, 18 b/w. BIC Classification: JHMC; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520284098
ISBN
9780520284098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.80

Paperback. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted, concise essays, the anthropologist Michael Jackson reflects on life situations where we are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding ourselves and connecting with others. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343813
ISBN
9780822343813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Paperback. Introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it. Using related evidence from archaeology and natural history, this work explores the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Num Pages: 760 pages, Numerous tables. BIC Classification: CF; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1298.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
760
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199296682
ISBN
9780199296682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.34

Hardback. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in shaping human history, with case studies from five continents examining human-animal relationships across a range of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Albarella, Umberto; Rizzetto, Mauro; Russ, Hannah; Vickers, Kim; Viner-Daniels, Sarah. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 816 pages, 129 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD; JHMC; RGM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199686476
ISBN
9780199686476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.38

Hardback. This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence. Editor(s): Fortescue, Michael; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFF; CFK; JHMC. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199683208
ISBN
9780199683208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 239.23

Paperback. In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the salmon-fishing tribes in the Canadian Northwest, the author reaches through everyday realities to reflect on the human condition. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 254.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571205028
ISBN
9780571205028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304. Essays on Writers and Writing. 218 pages. Addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. This title explores writing as a technic akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK; JHM. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520275263
ISBN
9780520275263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must see it from another's point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France's most public figures at his most personal. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHBT; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 189 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072923
ISBN
9780674072923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.96

Paperback. Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, 29 halftones. 17 tables. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJP; JFSG; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Preface
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162553
ISBN
9780691162553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.74

Paperback. * Presents a fresh look at broad trends in human prehistory. * Ranges across the globe using particular regions and periods as case studies. * Reveals to the non--specialist how archaeological data are assembled and interpreted to develop models of past society. . Series: Blackwell History of the World. Num Pages: 496 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781577181125
ISBN
9781577181125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.89

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