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Cultural studies
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
€ 88.40€ 68.33
€ 88.40
€ 68.33
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
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.73
€ 43.99
€ 33.73
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€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
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.
- Format
- 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
€ 56.60
€ 56.60
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621001706
- ISBN
- 9781621001706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 231.69€ 158.44
€ 231.69
€ 158.44
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814331651
- ISBN
- 9780814331651
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Condition: New
€ 43.65
€ 43.65
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
€ 44.99€ 37.27
€ 44.99
€ 37.27
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
€ 44.99€ 34.69
€ 44.99
€ 34.69
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.
- Format
- 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
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
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.
- Format
- 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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
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.
- Format
- 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
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
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. .
- Format
- 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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Condition: New
€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349288496
- ISBN
- 9781349288496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.91
€ 52.93
€ 46.91
Paperback. "This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field"-- Editor(s): Lee, V. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325597
- ISBN
- 9781349325597
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
paperback. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFSR; JPA; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- SKU
- V9781349522873
- ISBN
- 9781349522873
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Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies such as tattooing, piercing and scarification. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHMC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293116
- ISBN
- 9780312293116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 93.80
€ 93.80
Paperback. What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the publication of the Origin of Species and the beginning of the Second World War. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349323913
- ISBN
- 9781349323913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330522717
- ISBN
- 9780330522717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in narrative, during and immediately after the war. Authors include Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and Denton Welch. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349545971
- ISBN
- 9781349545971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95