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Cultural studies
Paperback. In What Makes us Human? some of the world's most brilliant thinkers offer their answers to this perennial puzzle, shedding new light on how and why our ancestors produced such clever, talented, and unlikely progeny. Editor(s): Pasternak, Charles. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; JMR; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 265.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851685196
- ISBN
- 9781851685196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.57
€ 13.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. 'I consider this book a remarkable achievement. Sophisticated in its use of sociological, anthropological and critical theory, [it] also successfully conveys the direct tangible experience of corporality and the senses. Falk's original, insightful book sets the study of the body onto a new plane' - Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803989740
- ISBN
- 9780803989740
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Condition: New
€ 83.43
€ 83.43
Paperback. Series: Gender, Development and Social Change. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; JFSJ; JHM; JPA; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349457847
- ISBN
- 9781349457847
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Condition: New
€ 65.72
€ 65.72
Hardcover. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age. This title tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Translator(s): Venerella, John. Num Pages: 481 pages, 12 halftones, 27 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFCX; RBGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 32. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 481
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226712871
- ISBN
- 9780226712871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.05
€ 33.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349349272
- ISBN
- 9781349349272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134981
- ISBN
- 9781571134981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.12
€ 134.12
Paperback. Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately affected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HRCC7; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329435
- ISBN
- 9780822329435
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.90
€ 36.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Suitable for students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history, this book includes such topics as diverse as parades in 19th-century America, 16th-century Spanish texts, English medical writing, and the visual practices implied in Italian Renaissance frescoes. Editor(s): Hunt, Lynn. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520064294
- ISBN
- 9780520064294
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? This book explains to Americans what the world really thinks of their nation and why, and to non-Americans why America is the way it is. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KOC0017836
- ISBN
- 9780747563952
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. "This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 212 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349948741
- ISBN
- 9781349948741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Tottering her way through the history of women's footwear, the author writes 'Shoes possess magic powers,' and wonders why it is that women love their shoes so much. She also has plenty of advice on choosing the right heel for your physique, how to keep shoes lasting long and how to judge a man by his footwear. Translator(s): Wenkert, Simonetta. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFCK; VSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 120 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747582465
- ISBN
- 9780747582465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838200750
- ISBN
- 9783838200750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Analyzing the first Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris in 1931, this title shows how the exhibition's display of architecture gave a vision to the colonies that justified France's cultural prejudices, while stimulating the desire for further expansionism. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; AB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317876
- ISBN
- 9780822317876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.38
€ 32.99
€ 25.38
Paperback. From the arrival of Italian ice-cream vendors and German pork butchers, to the rise of curry as the national dish, this book reveals the fascinating multicultural history of British food over the last 150 years, showing how a combination of immigration, increased wealth and globalization have transformed the eating habits of the British. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCV; JFSL1; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861896582
- ISBN
- 9781861896582
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Condition: New
€ 30.10
€ 30.10
Paperback. Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device. Num Pages: 328 pages, 55 illustrations, incl. 23 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347736
- ISBN
- 9780822347736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.79
€ 36.99
€ 28.79
paperback. Through a variety of texts - novels, memoirs, film, drama, theory, museum exhibits, legal cases - this title demonstrates the dynamics of passing, presenting it not as the assumption of a fraudulent identity but as the recognition that the assumption of any identity, including for the purposes of teaching, is a form of passing. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067709
- ISBN
- 9780252067709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234246
- ISBN
- 9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Vancouver
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- KRS0018753
- ISBN
- 9781551521435
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Provides both students and professionals in health care and social service with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with their clients and with the community at large. This book offers strategies for connecting with people across differences related to ethnicity, religion, nationality, disability, age, gender, and class. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JMH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Edition
- Csm
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781452217918
- ISBN
- 9781452217918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.49
€ 54.49
Paperback. Ranging across American culture of the middle 20th century this study depicts the shifting characterizations of teens from invisible young adults to young soldiers in training, to bobby soxers and zoot suiters, to rock'n'rollers and juvenile delinquents, from hippies to savvy consumers. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBTB; JFC; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465007660
- ISBN
- 9780465007660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.13
€ 30.13