Cultural studies
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Cultural studies
Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 500 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 293 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2020.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857231761
- ISBN
- 9788857231761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.08
€ 50.99
€ 46.08
Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, Richard. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293299
- ISBN
- 9781137293299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.30
€ 117.30
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451135
- ISBN
- 9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardback. Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch. Imagine that this person recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This book provides a survey of the history of the discussion about this problem. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792339342
- ISBN
- 9780792339342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.79
€ 130.79
Paperback. How has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSL; JHM; JMH; JPHC; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691001913
- ISBN
- 9780691001913
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Condition: New
€ 53.53€ 42.58
€ 53.53
€ 42.58
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859651738
- ISBN
- 9780859651738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.99
€ 19.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population. Num Pages: 464 pages, 95 line illus. 30 tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691011806
- ISBN
- 9780691011806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.10€ 55.15
€ 57.10
€ 55.15
Hardcover. A blend of political theory, social theory, and philosophy of culture, the book will show the relationship and tension between thought and action, politics and literature, power and dissent in modern politics and culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108790
- ISBN
- 9780230108790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFF; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1997
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349142200
- ISBN
- 9781349142200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Paperback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349369980
- ISBN
- 9781349369980
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Condition: New
€ 65.60
€ 65.60
Paperback. This work proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that although it may variously be associated wtih the Renaissance, the discovery of the New World and other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaces. Series: Richard Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919669
- ISBN
- 9780813919669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.60
€ 35.60
Hardback. This study of urban identity and community looks at selected 20th century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker proposes a "reflexive modernism" which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333801680
- ISBN
- 9780333801680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Paperback. What role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history. Editor(s): Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1H; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114408
- ISBN
- 9780226114408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback. Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. Editor(s): Lash, Scott; Friedman, Jonathan. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631175865
- ISBN
- 9780631175865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.50
€ 55.50
Paperback. Between the 1890s and the 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic and cultural changes. This study provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. Editor(s): Fawaz, Leila; Bayly, C. A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QSM; 1QSN; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114271
- ISBN
- 9780231114271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. This remarkable and engaging book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn--of--the--century Vienna, one of the most important centres of creativity in Europe. Le Rider uses the notion of identity to bring together diverse aspects of the Viennese fin de siecle in a new and illuminating way. Num Pages: 380 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745609706
- ISBN
- 9780745609706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.98
€ 85.98
Paperback. aeo This is a powerful and challenging new work offering a fresh and provocative account of the issues raised by the modernity/postmodernity debate. aeo Bauman is one of the leading social thinkers today. aeo The hardback was highly acclaimed and sold well. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745612423
- ISBN
- 9780745612423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Paperback. "Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War"-- Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326723
- ISBN
- 9781349326723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.02
€ 66.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349442294
- ISBN
- 9781349442294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88
Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213079
- ISBN
- 9780631213079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51