Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Paperback. * New edition of an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, including cultural, social and theoretical approaches to the body. * Introduces students to the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks which help us to understand the social significance of the human body. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745654416
- ISBN
- 9780745654416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.10
€ 26.10
Hardcover. The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation. Editor(s): Kutzinski, Vera M.; Ette, Ottmar. Num Pages: 496 pages, 115 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226465678
- ISBN
- 9780226465678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.22
€ 110.22
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Transform Pr
- Number of pages
- 978
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780963009609
- ISBN
- 9780963009609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.47
€ 33.99
€ 27.47
Hardback. This is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. The book rereads disparaged and vilified cultural objects ranging from gangsta rap and death metal to violent video games, using cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and the tragic as the interpretive lens. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739129319
- ISBN
- 9780739129319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.96
€ 139.96
Paperback. Series: Electronic Meditations Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 39 halftones, 2 line art illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 212 x 10. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816648511
- ISBN
- 9780816648511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.49
€ 18.99
€ 18.49
Paperback. Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. This title demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 344 pages, n/a bw photos, n/a color photos, n/a line drawings, n/a maps, n/a tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988931
- ISBN
- 9780295988931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.55
€ 31.99
€ 29.55
Paperback. Cultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; AVG; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335900
- ISBN
- 9780822335900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.47
€ 33.99
€ 28.47
Hardback. What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS?.. The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research. Translator(s): Gilgen, Peter; Curtis, Conrad Scott-. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFC; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724371
- ISBN
- 9780804724371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.65
€ 138.65
Paperback. What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS?.. The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research. Translator(s): Gilgen, Peter; Curtis, Conrad Scott-. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 164 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFC; MJCJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724388
- ISBN
- 9780804724388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.07
€ 41.07
Hardcover. In 1934 a Swedish museum director and his assistant researched the maritime and material culture of the Outer Hebrides. Their work is presented here along with 80 sepia photographs and 35 line drawings, all previously unpublished. Editor(s): Fenton, Alexander. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 sepia photographs + 43 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 195 x 14. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- NMSE - Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905267651
- ISBN
- 9781905267651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72
Hardback. This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, incl. 10 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347859
- ISBN
- 9780822347859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.72
€ 119.72
Paperback. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil Num Pages: 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472. Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. 312 pages, 25 illustrations, including 10 in colour. An ethnography that examines the culture of beauty and plastic surgery in Brazil. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JHMC. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 480.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348016
- ISBN
- 9780822348016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.39
€ 31.99
€ 28.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816622450
- ISBN
- 9780816622450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.07
€ 25.99
€ 24.07
Paperback. A roller coaster ride through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his generation. Num Pages: 599 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 34. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Verso
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781682951
- ISBN
- 9781781682951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.48
€ 21.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816698134
- ISBN
- 9780816698134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Kuperard
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857338522
- ISBN
- 9781857338522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.36
€ 13.99
€ 13.36
paperback. Designed as an answer to the question of the inclusiveness of the popular culture, this book argues that the values of popular music, media, politics, debates over social issues, and international trade have become everyday propaganda to which everyone relates in some way. Series: Routledge Communication Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780805808926
- ISBN
- 9780805808926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.54
€ 72.54
Hardcover. Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. It focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226520438
- ISBN
- 9780226520438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.57
€ 146.57
Paperback. Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human culture is itself an evolutionary process that exhibits the key Darwinian mechanisms of variation, competition, and inheritance. It focuses on the ways cultural phenomena can be studied scientifically. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226520445
- ISBN
- 9780226520445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.45
€ 40.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. 1. This is a wide-ranging Marxist critique of the many forms of post-modernism.2. Callinicos argues that the phenomena identified as post-modernist are not significantly different from the phenomena of modernity as analysed by Marx and Freud. He produces a controversial critique of post-modernists such as Derrida, Lyotard and Baudrillard.3. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745606149
- ISBN
- 9780745606149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 23.21
€ 23.99
€ 23.21