Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Hardback. Anthropological literature has traditionally been static and synchronic, only occasionally contributing to historical processes, however this is slowly beginning to change. This collection introduces focus and direction to this developing interface between anthropology and history. Editor(s): Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Num Pages: 344 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717922
- ISBN
- 9780804717922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.50
€ 180.50
Paperback. Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226620916
- ISBN
- 9780226620916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.91
€ 36.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? This title examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other people. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 halftones 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691021102
- ISBN
- 9780691021102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119963
- ISBN
- 9780230119963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344. Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture. 216 pages. This book explores how girls growing up in girl power media culture understand gender, self, empowerment, and resistance. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSP1. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 16. Weight: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608146
- ISBN
- 9780230608146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. " A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constructed, represented and communicated in cultural texts, and how it is experienced in different social contexts and environments."-- Editor(s): Keightley, Emily. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325375
- ISBN
- 9781349325375
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; HPK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349311965
- ISBN
- 9781349311965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism, the "national" characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. This text analyzes the French colonial experience as a case study in the erosion of belief in national destiny. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226023502
- ISBN
- 9780226023502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.73
€ 42.99
€ 33.73
Hardback. In this systematic account of aesthetics in relation to the natural environment, Emily Brady provides critical understanding of what aesthetic appreciation of nature involves and develops her own distinctive aesthetic theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPN; JFC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748614370
- ISBN
- 9780748614370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.80€ 142.16
€ 152.80
€ 142.16
Paperback. From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use. This book brings together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. Editor(s): Scott, Emily Eliza; Swenson, Kirsten J. Num Pages: 272 pages, 63 b/w. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ; AMV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285491
- ISBN
- 9780520285491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Hinddraws on poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femmenism and to imagine a femmenism that will appeal to the next generation of women." Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349289004
- ISBN
- 9781349289004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349468300
- ISBN
- 9781349468300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135506
- ISBN
- 9781571135506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. This book considers not just the men but also the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form. Num Pages: 464 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226272467
- ISBN
- 9780226272467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.73
€ 33.73
Hardcover. Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061689
- ISBN
- 9780226061689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 79.61
€ 94.03
€ 79.61
Hardcover. A funny and infographic-packed Reader's Digest for Jewish culture and practice. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2-c illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HRJP; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781452118963
- ISBN
- 9781452118963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.70
€ 18.99
€ 18.70
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813576329
- ISBN
- 9780813576329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.83
€ 41.99
€ 37.83
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813576336
- ISBN
- 9780813576336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Hardback. This book explores the origins of the so-called 'punitive turn' in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates how the context of neoliberalism has informed penal policy-making and argues that it is ultimately neoliberalism which has led to the recent intensification of punishment. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP; JPQB; JPV; LNFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251977
- ISBN
- 9780230251977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardback. Looks at indigeneity in the central highlands of Ecuador focusing on the activism of the grassroots organization of Inca Atahualpa. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 photos, 2 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351757
- ISBN
- 9780822351757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56