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Paperback. Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture. Series: Studies in Jazz. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442243545
ISBN
9781442243545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages, photo insert, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
266
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781610910033
ISBN
9781610910033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.07

Paperback. Documents both traditional and contemporary male haunts, such as bars, barbershops, lodges, pool halls, strip clubs, garages, deer camps, megachurches, the basement Barcalounger, and examines their provenance, purpose, and appeal. Num Pages: 264 pages, 79 photographs. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137355
ISBN
9780231137355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.83

Paperback. The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JFC; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520255845
ISBN
9780520255845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Blue Dome Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935295211
ISBN
9781935295211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.68

Paperback. Presents an analysis of the career of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American feminist artist who came to prominence in the late 70s and early 80s, in terms of gender and performance theory. This work is useful for those involved with the production, criticism, theory, and history of contemporary art. Num Pages: 184 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822323242
ISBN
9780822323242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.49

Hardback. Collects twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' this work regards frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Editor(s): Rausch, Jane M.; Weber, David J. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 222 pages, suggested readings, suggested films. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HBJK; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842024778
ISBN
9780842024778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.80

Paperback. Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: ACXJ; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 115 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Semiotext
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350989
ISBN
9781584350989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.96

Paperback. A guide to the world of the Freak. It features blogs, conversations, wisecracks and advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bank robbing, fast food to sex taxes. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; KCY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141980980
ISBN
9780141980980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.78

Paperback. This text examines the subtle, pervasive ways in which the belief in biblical prophecy shapes contemporary American thought and culture, tracing the origins and development of the strange complex of biblical exegesis and journalistic manipulation. Series: Studies in Cultural History. Num Pages: 488 pages, 36 halftones in two 8-page inserts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAB1; HRCG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 720.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674951297
ISBN
9780674951297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.32

Paperback. In this collection of provocative essays on Third World art and culture, filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415904315
ISBN
9780415904315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554588978
ISBN
9781554588978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.00
€ 24.82

Hardback. "A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun's own literary development, but the book is far broader than that-really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and beyond. And this isn't for women only!"-Maxine Kumin, Ploughshares Editor(s): Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Series: Personal Takes. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236323
ISBN
9780812236323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.36

Paperback. What are the consequences when legal culture and popular culture dissolve into each other? This text offers a study of law and popular culture. It argues that in the welter of communication technologies, an unrestrained marketplace, and postmodern ideas, law is increasingly becoming a spectacle. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226752921
ISBN
9780226752921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.40

Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Talking to you in English', he said, 'is like touching you with gloves.' Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BM; CJC; JFC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008100629
ISBN
9780008100629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.37

Paperback. Marrying great storytelling to an exploration of the intersection of science, journalism, fame, and legend, this book is a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of health and illness. Num Pages: 354 pages, 13, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; MB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892271
ISBN
9780801892271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.61

Paperback. In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his brother, and his first-born child. This title offers a celebration of perhaps one of the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map, port. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571234585
ISBN
9780571234585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. Drawing on eye-witness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab and Indian sources, this work shows readers the inside of China's most illustrious scientific and technological era. It sheds light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 pp halftones, line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195112078
ISBN
9780195112078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.74

Paperback.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804740265
ISBN
9780804740265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.55

Paperback. What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us sick, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 b/w line, 22 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199377114
ISBN
9780199377114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 36.40

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