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Cultural studies
Paperback. Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. Num Pages: 275 pages, 12 b&w photos 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE; JFC; JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691029658
- ISBN
- 9780691029658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.16
€ 52.99
€ 38.16
Paperback. aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745624105
- ISBN
- 9780745624105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.59
€ 22.59
Paperback. Editor(s): Bell, Diane. Num Pages: 146 pages, colour photos & illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 176 x 10. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756697
- ISBN
- 9781876756697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
€ 26.99
€ 19.02
paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816644230
- ISBN
- 9780816644230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.98
€ 24.99
€ 22.98
Paperback. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, this title addresses such questions as: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound so good when heard 'all around'. It shows how the historical conditions under which music is created affect the listening experience. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 65 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822319221
- ISBN
- 9780822319221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
€ 33.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVA; AVGC4; AVGC5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126166
- ISBN
- 9780691126166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.77
€ 46.99
€ 33.77
Hardcover. Over decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies. This volume introduces Scandinavian literacy to the international field of research. It provides a basis that can contribute to a general understanding of literacy. Num Pages: 355 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DN; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 355
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776740405
- ISBN
- 9788776740405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.84
€ 19.99
€ 15.84
hardcover. Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSK; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802092823
- ISBN
- 9780802092823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.75
€ 49.99
€ 49.75
Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, this book examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. It creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421413327
- ISBN
- 9781421413327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780875803012
- ISBN
- 9780875803012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.69
€ 47.69
Paperback. This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of 'literature' as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOG0008010
- ISBN
- 9780415169141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism. This study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; AV; DSBF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 21. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748684618
- ISBN
- 9780748684618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.99€ 107.83
€ 112.99
€ 107.83
Paperback. A collection of kitsch and kooky images with facts and weird tales. Its coverage includes from ghastly ghouls and racy romances; through wise-guy gangsters and vampish vixens; right up to battle-scarred heroes and outer space adventures. Num Pages: 112 pages, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 86 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Ilex Gift
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRS0029835
- ISBN
- 9781908150417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Features characters - including Two Jags, the Wicked Witch, Captain Hook and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban - are part of the fabric of the nation. The author ridicules the country Britain has become the barmy bureaucracy, the petty interference in our lives, and the insanities of the 'elf 'n' safety industry. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KLN0016027
- ISBN
- 9780099509448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. This book explores lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 colour illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783899426571
- ISBN
- 9783899426571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.92
€ 45.99
€ 32.92
Hardcover. Num Pages: 267 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: JFC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 186 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608769407
- ISBN
- 9781608769407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.25€ 117.66
€ 171.25
€ 117.66
Hardcover. This book provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566634793
- ISBN
- 9781566634793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.24
€ 40.24
Paperback. Shows what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W Bush's re-election. This book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004 - to the need for unity. Editor(s): Starkey, David. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478. 416 pages, 3 maps. Editor(s): Starkey, David. Shows what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W Bush's re-election. This book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004 - to the need for unity. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- Softcover Ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260085
- ISBN
- 9780803260085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.97
€ 21.99
€ 20.97
Paperback. The importance of Eastman's life story was reiterated for a new generation when the 2007 HBO film entitled "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" used Eastman, played by Adam Beach, as its leading hero. This book presents an account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of the author. Editor(s): Fitzgerald, Michael Oren. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Ill
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933316765
- ISBN
- 9781933316765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.76
€ 27.76
Hardback. The democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times. Num Pages: 448 pages, 80 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231124966
- ISBN
- 9780231124966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.47€ 46.93
€ 59.47
€ 46.93