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Cultural studies
Paperback. In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author investigates pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Focusing on popular and television coverage of the Gulf War, he examines the capacity of visual images to awaken/stifle public debate, emotion and violence. Num Pages: 462 pages, 79 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; APFA; APT; GTE; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226532325
- ISBN
- 9780226532325
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Condition: New
€ 41.39
€ 41.39
Paperback. aeo Aims to create a new 'kinda of psychology, that of corporeal psychology. aeo Distinctive in its analysis of how bodies are used and how they are talked about. aeo Third part of a successful trilogy (following Social Being, 2nd edition, 1993, and Personal Being, 1983). Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631195054
- ISBN
- 9780631195054
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Condition: New
€ 60.44
€ 60.44
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331131
- ISBN
- 9780822331131
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.67
€ 36.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers -- the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits -- may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art. Editor(s): Bourdieu, Pierre. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: AJG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617152
- ISBN
- 9780745617152
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Condition: New
€ 25.22
€ 25.22
Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life (Pa...
Keightley, Emily, Pickering, Michael
Hardcover. This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AJC; AVG; JFCA; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441201
- ISBN
- 9781137441201
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Condition: New
€ 138.47
€ 138.47
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904303466
- ISBN
- 9781904303466
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Condition: New
€ 57.46
€ 57.46
Paperback. This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and exploited for propaganda purposes. It asks whether the images can ever be true representations of the events. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860645464
- ISBN
- 9781860645464
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Condition: New
€ 32.37
€ 32.37
Paperback. Cultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; AVG; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822335900
- ISBN
- 9780822335900
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.02
€ 31.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 237 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628924091
- ISBN
- 9781628924091
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.74
€ 16.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. This book is a critical introduction to the philosophy of social science. While most social scientists maintain that the social sciences should stand free of politics, this book argues that they should be politically partisan. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631190424
- ISBN
- 9780631190424
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Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. Traces the development, during the 20th century, of the four central themes in the philosophy of science: inductivism and its critics; conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine thesis; the nature of observation; and the demarcation between science and metaphysics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631183587
- ISBN
- 9780631183587
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Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy
Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Quentin Skin...
paperback. A volume of essays on the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. Editor(s): Rorty, Richard; Schneewind, Jerome B.; Skinner, Quentin. Series Editor(s): Skinner, Quentin; Daston, Lorraine; Ross, Dorothy; Tully, James. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780521273305
- ISBN
- 9780521273305
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Condition: New
€ 39.99€ 30.68
€ 39.99
€ 30.68
Paperback. The contributors of these essays assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. The essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged, reinvesting its importance from a new angle of vision. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823216314
- ISBN
- 9780823216314
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series. Editor(s): Joll, Nicholas. Num Pages: 324 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: FZC; HP; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230291126
- ISBN
- 9780230291126
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Condition: New
€ 47.53
€ 47.53
Paperback. This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 461.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780823225514
- ISBN
- 9780823225514
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.73
€ 41.99
€ 37.73
Paperback. This volume presents original writings and interviews with prominent thinkers on the front lines of an international intellectual effort to reconsider the fundamental terms of modernity and promote a philosophical design that reconsiders the significance of modernity itself. Editor(s): Yamamoto, Tetsuji. Num Pages: 860 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HP; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 175 x 59. Weight in Grams: 2092.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 860
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847695386
- ISBN
- 9780847695386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 131.46
€ 131.46
paperback. Series: The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691168586
- ISBN
- 9780691168586
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 20.34
€ 29.99
€ 20.34
Paperback. "Exploring the complex relationship between aesthetic experience and personal identity in Larkin's work, this book gives close and original readings of three major poems ('Here', 'Livings' and 'Aubade'), and two neglected but important themes (Larkin and the supernatural, Larkin and Flaubert)"-- Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349321452
- ISBN
- 9781349321452
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349315208
- ISBN
- 9781349315208
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries. Jalata's research reveals that terrorism can emerge from above as state terrorism and below as subversive organizations or groups. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JKV; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349568666
- ISBN
- 9781349568666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58