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Hardback. Upending many of our assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, this text particularly focuses on the notion that the '60s represented a total rupture and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change. The essays map an alternative history of American culture from the '50s to the '90s. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; GTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106702
ISBN
9780231106702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.43

Paperback. "Remarkable.. Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject."-Christine Stansell, University of Chicago Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393338911
ISBN
9780393338911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.46

Paperback. A book that analyzes status-building techniques - such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming - to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class and gender. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSC; UDBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300209389
ISBN
9780300209389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.21

Paperback. One of Us views conjoined twinning and other 'abnormalities' from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018259
ISBN
9780674018259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.56

Hardback. "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap. Editor(s): Crawford, Alice. Num Pages: 336 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: GL; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691166391
ISBN
9780691166391
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.38

Paperback. Editor(s): Crawford, Alice. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 color illus. 6 halftones. BIC Classification: GLM; JFC; JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691175744
ISBN
9780691175744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.72

Paperback. Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones . Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349349357
ISBN
9781349349357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPS; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349416981
ISBN
9781349416981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.36

Hardback. Editor(s): Joignant, Alfredo; Morales, Mauricio; Fuentes, Claudio. Num Pages: 343 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTF; JFC; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137599872
ISBN
9781137599872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.36

Paperback. Alfred Kazin, one of the central figures of intellectual life for three decades in the middle of the 20th century, tells his own story and with it a history of contemporary American letters. Series: New York Classics. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815604136
ISBN
9780815604136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.83

Paperback. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, this title argues that Freudianism offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFCX; JMAF; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145525
ISBN
9780691145525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.85

Paperback. Completed just before Alfred Gell's death in January 1997, this book embodies the characteristics for which he was admired. The book aims to challenge the basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents a fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Num Pages: 296 pages, numerous black and white halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198280149
ISBN
9780198280149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 171.99

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137567864
ISBN
9781137567864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Paperback. Historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational, and of scarcity and abundance, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Editor(s): McCrossen, Alexis. Num Pages: 440 pages, 105 illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFCD; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344759
ISBN
9780822344759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.13

paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 147 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Lit Verlag
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825868208
ISBN
9783825868208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.89

Paperback. Partially based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2009) under the title: The difference Orunmila makes: the past as project in an Afro-Brazilian struggle. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349481583
ISBN
9781349481583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardback. Exploring how football impacts on people's everyday lives, this volume uses anthropological research methods to scrutinize the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration. Editor(s): Schwell, Alexandra; Kowalska, Malgorzata; Buchowski, Michal. Series: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; JFCA; JHBS; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137516961
ISBN
9781137516961
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.49

Hardcover. While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark. This book reveals the nature of urban film's influence through the lens and space of Johannesburg. Series: Screening Spaces. Num Pages: 253 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; APFA; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137554796
ISBN
9781137554796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.60

Paperback. This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 205 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536580
ISBN
9781349536580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.17

Hardcover. * 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: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745654409
ISBN
9780745654409
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.38

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