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Cultural studies
Paperback. Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. This title examines the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles. Num Pages: 216 pages, 19 b/w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFCV; JFFT; KNDF; TDCT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276345
- ISBN
- 9780520276345
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€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? This title examines one neighborhood's fight to erase the stigma of devastation. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JFC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226894324
- ISBN
- 9780226894324
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€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
Hardback. * Develops an exciting new cultural approach to the study of markets that helps to explain some of the puzzles and oddities in the way markets work. * Reveals the important and implicit role that cultural dynamics play in the way markets are organized and the way people operate within them. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745647449
- ISBN
- 9780745647449
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Num Pages: 193 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFFE; JHMC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590334775
- ISBN
- 9781590334775
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€ 92.84€ 72.36
€ 92.84
€ 72.36
Paperback. This is the first book to explore the multitude of narrative media forms created by and that feature Latinos in the twenty-first century - a radically different cultural landscape to earlier epochs. The essays present a fresh take informed by the explosion of Latino demographics and its divergent cultural tastes. Editor(s): Aldama, Frederick Luis. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349474158
- ISBN
- 9781349474158
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Conversations with Writers and Artists. 308 pages, black & white illustrations. Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicanolandia writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicanolandia literature and art. This book presents interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicanolandia poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSB; GTB; JFC. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 19. Weight: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713123
- ISBN
- 9780292713123
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
paperback. Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Looking at how Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, and C. Dale Young use structures such as meter, rhyme, and line break, this study identifies a poetics of formalist Latino poetry. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351664
- ISBN
- 9781349351664
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Condition: New
€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Paperback. Looking inside the New South, this book shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the years altered racial reality, that in turn altered white perceptions, and thus behaviour and attitudes in a section of the country where segregation had been entrenched. It is useful for those interested in America's conflict over civil liberties. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318934
- ISBN
- 9780822318934
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism. Num Pages: 449 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Number of pages
- 449
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860915379
- ISBN
- 9780860915379
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Condition: New
€ 27.36
€ 27.36
Hardcover. In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old. Editor(s): Freeman, Lindsey A.; Nienass, Benjamin; Daniell, Rachel. Series: Remapping Cultural History. Num Pages: 254 pages, 20 ills. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782382805
- ISBN
- 9781782382805
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Condition: New
€ 162.76
€ 162.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Series: Mechademia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 53 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AKLC; HBW; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816667499
- ISBN
- 9780816667499
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.15
€ 23.99
€ 22.15
Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACXJ; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816699155
- ISBN
- 9780816699155
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.63
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€ 27.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Lunning, Frenchy. Series: Mechademia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 96 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AKLC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816689552
- ISBN
- 9780816689552
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardcover. This book argues that there are some important implications of the role the voice plays in popular music when thinking about processes of identification. The central thesis is that the voice in popular music is potentially uncanny (Freud's unheimlich), and that this may invite or guard against identification by the listener. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; JFCA; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105904
- ISBN
- 9780230105904
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290185
- ISBN
- 9781349290185
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A collection of essays on medicine and media from newspapers through film, television, and computers Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D. Num Pages: 472 pages, 82 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332947
- ISBN
- 9780822332947
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.13
€ 41.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. A critique of the Victorian nuclear family. It argues that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; JFCX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191119
- ISBN
- 9780141191119
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. Most of us realize that fashion is more than just clothes. Fashion influences our judgments of people's taste, politics, sexuality, class, religion, and even their moral character. It can be a medium for technological and social change - changes in fashion may signal economic and political shifts. Editor(s): Kennett, Jeanette; Wolfendale, Asst Prof Jessica. Series Editor(s): Allhoff, Fritz. Series: Philosophy for Everyone. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405199902
- ISBN
- 9781405199902
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Condition: New
€ 21.98
€ 21.98
Paperback. From Santa, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge, to the culture wars and virgin birth, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone explores a host of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas. Editor(s): Lowe, Scott C. Series Editor(s): Allhoff, Fritz. Series: Philosophy for Everyone. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5HC; HPX; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444330908
- ISBN
- 9781444330908
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Condition: New
€ 25.24
€ 25.24
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 666 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 666
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691612577
- ISBN
- 9780691612577
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Condition: New
€ 111.88€ 86.38
€ 111.88
€ 86.38