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Cultural studies
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288496
- ISBN
- 9781349288496
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Condition: New
€ 53.10€ 47.32
€ 53.10
€ 47.32
paperback. Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, Vincent Hausmann charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; HBTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- SKU
- V9781349293490
- ISBN
- 9781349293490
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€ 66.60
€ 66.60
Based upon historical and archival research, as well as the author's fieldwork in indigenous communities, this work analyzes value from the perspective of the Napo Runa people of the Amazonian Ecuador. It views that Napo Runa personifies value by transforming things into people through a process of subordinating them to human relationships. Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 photographs; 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252072550
- ISBN
- 9780252072550
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.56
€ 29.99
€ 27.56
Hardback. * A wide--ranging and engagingly written social history of the duel* Presents a new argument: that the duel didna t die out in the 19th century as was previously thought, but continued until the 1st World War and beyond* A topic of potential media interest; it should be widely reviewed. . Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFC; JFSJ; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745611976
- ISBN
- 9780745611976
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Condition: New
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
Hardback. One of the first books in a new Food Histories series from Reaktion, Beyond Bratwurst takes a close look at food culture in Germany, illuminating the surprisingly exciting and diverse culinary history and contemporary appetite of the European Nation. Series: Foods and Nations. Num Pages: 384 pages, 100 black & white, 20 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 239 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1074.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780232720
- ISBN
- 9781780232720
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.52
€ 36.99
€ 26.52
Paperback. This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it illustrates how coca, an internationally criminalzsed good, affected the path and outcome of cocalero political empowerment in each case. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497690
- ISBN
- 9781349497690
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Condition: New
€ 66.09
€ 66.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226896809
- ISBN
- 9780226896809
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.31
€ 43.99
€ 34.31
Paperback. An ethnography of Wall Street culture, this book offers a picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, here, markets appear as socially constructed institutions in which the behaviour of traders is suspended in a web of customs. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 line illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674006881
- ISBN
- 9780674006881
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.27
€ 43.99
€ 37.27
Paperback. Bringing together scholarly insights and research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to the norms of joke-telling in conversation in Japan and America. Editor(s): Davis, Jessica Milner. Series: Humor in Life & Letters S. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 illustrations, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814331651
- ISBN
- 9780814331651
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Condition: New
€ 44.03
€ 44.03
Paperback. Offering a view of Jewish society and culture, the essays in this volume shed light on a little-known chapter of Jewish history. Written by scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe and the United States, it presents a broad historical canvas that brings together different perspectives and viewpoints. Editor(s): Levy, Avigdor. Series: Modern Jewish History. Num Pages: 301 pages, 4 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBTB; HRJ; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629412
- ISBN
- 9780815629412
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Condition: New
€ 47.31
€ 47.31
Paperback. This book, ambitious in both length and scope, offers the Whedon fan and scholar alike a diversity of current, insightful, original scholarship by dozens of Whedon Studies most established and respected writers. Editor(s): Wilcox, Rhonda V.; Cochran, Tanya R.; Masson, Cynthea; Lavery, David. Series: Television and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610380
- ISBN
- 9780815610380
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.17
€ 32.99
€ 32.17
Paperback. This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HBG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299171247
- ISBN
- 9780299171247
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Condition: New
€ 27.24
€ 27.24
Hardcover. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; BGH; HBJF1; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633587
- ISBN
- 9780815633587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.97
€ 65.97
Hardcover. Editor(s): Smith, Aaron C. T.; Haimes, Gervase A. Num Pages: 215 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 261 x 18. Weight in Grams: 622.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621001706
- ISBN
- 9781621001706
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Condition: New
€ 227.50€ 156.56
€ 227.50
€ 156.56
Hardcover. The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. Editor(s): King, Steven; Winter, Dr. Anne, Ph.D. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 326 pages, 14 ills, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; JFC; JFFN; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782381457
- ISBN
- 9781782381457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.22
€ 165.22
Paperback. Considers the work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists and new areas of postmodernist culture which have developed over the years, especially in law, music, dance, spatial theory, ethnography, ecology, and the new technologies. Num Pages: 340 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631200529
- ISBN
- 9780631200529
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Condition: New
€ 55.96
€ 55.96
Paperback. Editor(s): Desmarais, Annette Aurelie; Wiebe, Nettie; Wittman, Hannah. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 173 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552664438
- ISBN
- 9781552664438
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.61
€ 29.99
€ 25.61
Paperback. If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presents a provocative theory about why fairy tales were created and retold - and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159553
- ISBN
- 9780691159553
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.47
€ 26.99
€ 20.47
Paperback. The profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This title brings together American and European scholars, scientists, and artists to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies transform the ways we think and act. Editor(s): Bartscherer, Thomas; Coover, Roderick. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038315
- ISBN
- 9780226038315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.37
€ 42.99
€ 33.37
Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and Change
University Of Pittsburgh Chinese Studies Facu...
Hardback. Introducing students to Chinese society, this CD-ROM features six themes that address issues across several fields in the social sciences and humanities including, unity of diversity; views of time and space; adapting to a changing world; and others. It provides video introductions for each unit; and interactive maps; Web links; and a glossary. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 147 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139823
- ISBN
- 9780231139823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.80€ 67.55
€ 86.80
€ 67.55